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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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This week’s relists: preemption of consumer protection laws, bankruptcy claims, COVID mandates and. Chevron deference again?

SCOTUSBlog

Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. It then concluded with respect to the Hymes/Harwayne-Gidansky suit that the Dodd-Frank language quoted above simply codified the pre-existing legal standard and held their claims preempted. Nelson ,…517 U.S. The California state law at issue in Flagstar Bank v.

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