As reported by Legal Newsline on Forbes.com: A settlement binding all potential plaintiffs may be the only practical way of ending nearly 2,000 lawsuits against manufacturers, distributors and retailers of addictive opioid painkillers, said plaintiff lawyers attending a conference on Read more…
My latest story on Legal Newsline: HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – Harris County, Texas, considers itself a highly sophisticated government entity, with a population larger than 16 states and a territory larger than Rhode Island. Yet when it hired outside lawyers Read more…
My latest story for Legal Newsline on Forbes.com: Several Pennsylvania counties are fighting to keep control of their opioid lawsuits as the national law firm Simmons Hanly Conroy, with the active support of the companies it is suing, seeks to Read more…
My latest Legal Newsline story on Forbes.com: Boulder, Colo., officials described it as a can’t-lose proposition when they voted to sue ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy for their alleged role in causing climate change. But now that federal judges on either Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – The private lawyers who engineered the latest round of municipal lawsuits over climate change hoped they’d found a path through the thicket of precedents blocking their way by suing oil companies for selling hydrocarbons instead Read more…
A clearly skeptical federal judge questioned the basic premise behind New York City’s lawsuit against five of the world’s biggest oil companies over climate change on Wednesday, asking whether the city was simply rehashing failed earlier attempts to sue companies Read more…
The third season of the wildly popular show “Billions” premiered in March with a mention of an oddly arcane subject: asbestos bankruptcy trusts. The dialogue coming out of the mouth of prosecutor Chuck Rhodes, played by Paul Giamatti, becomes a Read more…
The latest wave of state lawsuits over the opioid crisis illustrates sharp differences emerging in how governments litigate these cases, both in whom they choose to sue and whether private lawyers stand to get a piece of the action. Five Read more…
An old story has it a Southern defense attorney, confronted with photographic evidence of his client’s guilt, turns to the jury and says “who you gonna believe? Me, or your own lyin’ eyes?” A quick Google search reveals the line Read more…
A public fight between the Tennessee attorney general and counties that have filed separate lawsuits against the opioid industry could be the first of many similar conflicts as state AGs try to assert control over mushrooming litigation over the addiction Read more…