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Too Clever By Half: Why Public Nuisance is Again at the Heart of a Public Health Debate

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.

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The long conference’s relists

SCOTUSBlog

Abbott involves a long-running series of multi-district litigation cases arising from du Pont’s government-permitted releases of chemicals from one of its plants; because the claims of harm from exposure were varied, the cases proceeded through multidistrict litigation rather than as part of a class action. relisted after the Sept.

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