August 05, 2019
Drug companies in the multidistrict opioid litigation on Monday lambasted the seven-week timeline for the first bellwether trial, deeming it "entirely untenable" and an affront to due process in the sprawling case.
July 22, 2019
Seeking a leg up in an upcoming bellwether trial, Ohio counties in the multidistrict opioid litigation are asserting that drug companies sold highly addictive painkillers with such clear disregard for illicit use that they can't credibly deny violating federal law.
July 16, 2019
The Ohio federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over the opioid crisis said that national data on opioid sales before December 2012 should be publicly available.
July 16, 2019
The nation's biggest pharmacy benefit management companies have voluntarily implemented policies to help clamp down on painkiller prescriptions, according to an Ohio federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over the opioid addiction epidemic.
July 12, 2019
Native American law practitioners will be keeping close tabs on the U.S. Supreme Court's reboot of a murder case with major implications for tribal jurisdiction in Oklahoma as well as on Fifth Circuit challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act and the Affordable Care Act and the first trial in the massive opioid multidistrict litigation.
July 03, 2019
For the rest of 2019, product liability attorneys will be closely following Oklahoma's case alleging Johnson & Johnson fueled the opioid epidemic and the litigation Boeing is facing after two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max 8 aircraft. Here, Law360 looks at those and other cases to watch in the second half of 2019.
July 03, 2019
During the first six months of 2019, the legal ethics arena saw a Tenth Circuit decision on judicial ethics complaints against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the first of several potential rulings on conflicts in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions case. Here are some of the top legal ethics and malpractice decisions from the first half of the year.
July 01, 2019
As a bellwether trial nears in multidistrict opioid litigation, drug companies and Ohio local governments are seeking victories on crucial legal questions over liability for a deadly addiction epidemic and a proposed multibillion-dollar remedy.
June 25, 2019
The Ohio federal judge overseeing the opioid multidistrict litigation appeared receptive Tuesday to an inventive proposal to create a class of local governments to negotiate a global settlement with drug companies accused of fueling the addiction crisis, saying novel problems need novel solutions.
June 24, 2019
Drug distributors, pharmacies and state attorneys general on Monday launched a salvo against a novel bid by local governments in the opioid multidistrict litigation to create a "negotiating class" to seek a global settlement of claims that drug companies fueled the opioid crisis.