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Expert says brains have similar changes with prescription and illicit opioids
CHARLESTON -- While opioid distributors have argued there is no proof of connection between prescription painkiller use and illicit drug use, an expert in the neurobiology of addiction said, during the second day of a landmark federal trial against those distributors, that people who take prescription painkillers and illicit opioids see the same changes in their brain chemistry. -
UPDATE: Landmark federal opioid trial against three drug distributors begins
CHARLESTON – The landmark bellwether trial accusing three major drug distributors of helping fuel the opioid epidemic has begun. -
UPDATE: Federal judge denies more motions from opioid manufacturers as trial start looms
CHARLESTON – As the trial date looms next week, a federal judge again has denied motions for summary judgment from the defendant opioid distributors. -
Class action lawyers fight to keep Clorox case alive
OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Clorox fails to specify how much sodium hypochlorite is in its Splash-Less gel product that is too weak to disinfect, lawyers pushing a class action are claiming. -
Clorox to plaintiff: Read the label before you sue us
OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Clorox says the woman complaining in court that it’s Splash-Less products aren’t strong enough never bothered reading their labels. -
Private lawyers won't be cashing in on contract given to them by former Mississippi AG
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - It doesn’t look like private lawyers who scored a contract with former Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood will get the payday they were seeking when he hired them in October 2015. -
Opioid judge supports `negotiating class,’ tells critics like state AGs to `come up with a better model’
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation against opioid manufacturers and distributors left little doubt he supports a plan developed by private lawyers to assemble an unprecedented “negotiating class” consisting of every city and county in the U.S. -
Law firm claims Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley is attempting to 'shirk' payment of fees
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A Washington, D.C. law firm is seeking a declaration that two California parties are obligated to pay fees.