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SHERMAN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge in Texas dismissed Walmart’s lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that the Justice Department’s interpretation of federal drug laws is incorrect, saying he lacked jurisdiction because the government failed to waive its sovereign immunity from suit.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A lawsuit alleging Walmart failed to offer its cashiers somewhere to sit will be on hold for a little while.
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WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Justice Department filed a long-anticipated lawsuit against Walmart, accusing the retailer of filling “hundreds of thousands” of suspicious opioid prescriptions that it should have blocked or reported to federal authorities.
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TEXARKANA, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A Walmart customer failed to show why the retailer should be held liable for a slip-and-fall in one of its Texas stores, an appeals court at Texarkana recently ruled in an affirmation of a trial court’s decision.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The plaintiff lawyers leading federal multidistrict litigation against the opioid industry have shelved their request to pull a lawsuit Walmart filed against the government in Texas into the MDL, saying the Justice Department was likely to win its motion to dismiss the case.
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SHERMAN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiff lawyers tried, and failed, to drag Walmart’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice into the court overseeing federal multidistrict opioid litigation in an effort to head off a court ruling that could undermine their claims pharmacists helped cause a nationwide epidemic of narcotic use.
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New York has admitted in advance of a trial over whether drug distributors caused the “public nuisance” of opioid addiction that the state never investigated the defendant companies for diverting narcotics and none of the pharmacies they served were prosecuted for illegal sales.
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SHERMAN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Walmart is betting on an 86-year-old law that companies most commonly use to fend off lawsuits over insurance coverage or trademarks to block an expected government suit over how its pharmacists filled opioid prescriptions.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Walmart faces a class action lawsuit over whether the “lifetime” tire balance and rotation service was misleading, given that the company closed all of its auto care centers.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Cashiers unhappy they have nowhere to sit at Walmart were wrong to file a lawsuit, the company says, because the issue is being litigated elsewhere.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Lewsline) – The judge overseeing what plaintiffs lawyers call a “pile” of opioid lawsuits should determine if a recent one filed by two Arkansas counties will be sent back to a state court, Walmart is arguing.
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CINCINNATI (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has temporarily halted a federal judge’s order requiring the largest U.S. pharmacy chains to turn over more than a decade’s worth of nationwide prescription records, although the court refused to halt production of prescriptions for the state of Ohio.
