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Plaintiff Lawyer Dishes Out Fierce Criticism Of Multidistrict Litigation

MDLs were supposed to be a more efficient way of handling mass-tort lawsuits but unethical practices and the incentives of corporate defendants combine to deliver poor results to plaintiffs. As reported on Legal Newsline: PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 11 (Legal Newsline) – Federal multidistrict litigation, a procedure intended to resolve mass-tort lawsuits Read more…

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

6th Circuit Ruling In Opioid MDL Gives Defendants Hope Of Reform

As published on Legal Newsline: CINCINNATI (April 20, 2020) – Facing a string of damaging rulings by the judge overseeing sprawling litigation against them, some of the nation’s leading retail pharmacy chains resorted to the equivalent of a Hail Mary pass: They sought extraordinary intervention by a higher court to Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 9 months ago
Opioid crisis

Why Did An Ohio County Pay A Washington Lobbyist $500,000 In Opioid Suit?

An Ohio county that settled opioid lawsuits last year for $105 million paid more than $1 million in legal fees to two law firms that never appeared on any of the court filings, including one associated with a prominent Washington lobbyist whose firm represented multiple companies being sued by the county. 

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 10 months ago
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Opioid Lawyers Poised For Multibillion-Dollar Payoff For Years Of Political Contributions

As published on Legal Newsline: CLEVELAND, March 11, 2020  – Their request for some $3 billion in fees has generated fierce resistance from state attorneys general and defendants, but don’t worry about the financial states of private lawyers who represent thousands of municipal plaintiffs in opioid litigation. The 18 law Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 10 months ago
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Judge’s Order to Turn Over Opioid Prescriptions Sparks Privacy Battle

As published on Legal Newsline: CLEVELAND, Jan. 14 – A federal judge has ordered the nation’s leading pharmacy chains to turn over billions of nationwide prescription records going back more than 20 years – even as the American Civil Liberties Union and some states attack similar requests by the government Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 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 on a settlement that appeases warring state attorneys general and Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year1 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 transform nuisance law “into a monster that would devour in 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 up within a year. “People aren’t interested in depositions, and 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 procedural and political fiasco. In unambiguous July 23 letters to Read more…

By dan@waldenconsultants.com, 1 year1 year ago

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