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Climate litigation

Does the AG really get to sue ExxonMobil over statements about climate change?

The lawsuit by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey accuses ExxonMobil of making public statements that undercut the consensus scientific view on global warming.

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year1 year ago
Opioid crisis

Ohio AG warns lawyers: Opioid settlement dead without fee limits, fair distribution

Yost says the settlement is in danger of descending into the divisiveness that has marked the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma, where half the states and some 2,000 municipal plaintiff support a proposed $12 billion settlement and half the states object

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year ago
Opioid crisis

After fiery hearing, Purdue Pharma gets two-week break from opioid lawsuits

As published on Legal Newsline: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Oct. 14, 2019 – The federal bankruptcy judge overseeing Purdue Pharma’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization granted the OxyContin manufacturer and its controlling Sackler family a two-week respite from opioid litigation to work Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year1 year ago
The Law

Ohio AG makes play for control of opioid litigation

As published on Legal Newsline: CINCINNATI (Aug. 30) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has asked a federal appeals court to halt or dismiss the first two bellwether trials in opioid multidistrict litigation, in a major escalation of the long-brewing Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year ago
Opioid crisis

Oklahoma judge feeds the ‘monster’ with $572M Johnson & Johnson ruling

As published on Legal Newsline: Sixteen years ago in a case involving gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co., a New York appeals court refused to apply public nuisance law against the manufacturer of a legal product, saying that doing so would Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year ago
Opioid crisis

‘Nobody’s sure if it will work or how’: A review of how a Cleveland judge is handling 2,000 opioid lawsuits

As reported on Legal Newsline: CLEVELAND, Aug. 14  – Soon after the first of nearly 2,000 opioid lawsuits by cities and counties flooded into his Ohio courtroom, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster laid out an ambitious plan to wrap them Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year1 year ago
Opioid crisis

Attorneys General Address the Elephant in the Room in Opioid MDL

The National Association of Attorneys General and Ohio AG Dave Yost have finally stated what should have been obvious from the beginning: The strategy of recruiting thousands of cities and counties as plaintiffs to sue the opioid industry is a Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year1 year ago
Our crazy tort system

Roundup, Talc Cases Raise Question: What if Juries Get Science Wrong?

As published on Legal Newsline’s Northern California Record: SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, 2019 – On one coast, Bayer AG is fighting to reverse eye-popping jury verdicts based on a contested theory Roundup herbicide made by its Monsanto unit causes cancer. Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year1 year ago
Securities

`Stupid and Sloppy’ Legal Work Nevertheless Yielded Boston Lawyer Millions in Fees

As published on Legal Newsline June 26, 2019: BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – A lawyer at the center of the scandal over the $300 million settlement of a State Street securities case told a federal judge in Boston it was “stupid Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 2 years ago
Opioid crisis

“It Keeps Changing”: How Oklahoma Hopes to Use 700-Year-Old Nuisance Law to Win $17 Billion

As published by Legal Newsline: NORMAN, Okla. (Legal Newsline) – The opioid trial now underway in a county courthouse in Oklahoma offers the first look at a legal strategy that could result in tens of billions of dollars in liability Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 2 years ago

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