By ALM Staff | August 24, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
By Alaina Lancaster | August 10, 2022
The bench ruling from U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer marks the first bench trial to find Walgreens liable for public nuisance claims in the nationwide multidistrict litigation stemming from the ongoing opioid epidemic, according to San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 29, 2022
The deal, announced by attorneys general in eight states, including California and Illinois, comes five days after another opioid manufacturer, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., reached a $4.25 billion deal to resolve thousands of lawsuits.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 26, 2022
Teva negotiated the deal with the plaintiffs executive committee in the opioid multidistrict litigation, along with a "working group" of attorneys general of 12 states, including California, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 12, 2022
The two drug companies have agreed to pay $54 million to settle San Francisco's opioid trial on Tuesday, but closing arguments continue against a third defendant, Walgreens.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 5, 2022
The ruling included findings from judges in other opioid cases in California and Oklahoma.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 30, 2022
Mikal Watts predicted hundreds of thousands of cases. "Indeed, counsel anticipate that this will be one of the largest multidistrict litigations in the history of the United States," he wrote in a motion this month before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
By Scott Graham | June 6, 2022
Three Federal Circuit judges suggest that the language of the Patent Act limits inventors to human beings. Judge Richard Taranto adds that it's "not self-evident" that extending inventorship to machines would be good policy, either.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 2, 2022
Plaintiffs lawyers at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman filed a motion to coordinate more than 30 lawsuits over Merck's Gardasil vaccine but said there could be more, citing 39 claims that went through the Vaccine Court claims process and 52 others that are pending. Michael Baum, of Baum Hedlund, called Merck's criticism a "false straw man argument."
By Amanda Bronstad | May 5, 2022
Another opioid trial began on April 25 in San Francisco against Walgreens, as well as manufacturers Allergan and Teva, and Teva's distribution subsidiary Anda.
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