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Contributors score contract with Mississippi AG for PFAS lawsuit

By John O'Brien | Tuesday, Dec 22, 2020 @ 8:18am

JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – Private lawyers, some of whom contributed to her campaign, stand to gain financially from Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s new lawsuit against 3M, DuPont and other companies over chemicals known as PFAS.
Pa. opioid lawsuits plod along as companies demand 'critical information to defend themselves'

By Daniel Fisher | Thursday, Nov 12, 2020 @ 7:10am

MEDIA (Legal Newsline) - Drug distributors facing about 50 opioid lawsuits in Pennsylvania have asked the judge overseeing the litigation to order sanctions against plaintiffs for repeatedly refusing to honor deadlines to turn over evidence including information about how state and local governments have handled the opioid crisis they blame on the drug industry.