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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Even if Bayer decides to settle, Feinberg might have a difficult time devising a fair system to pay claimants given the lack of scientific evidence.
As reported on Legal Newsline: San Francisco, May 14: On April 30, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, to be safe. Less than two weeks later, a California jury ordered Read more…