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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The lawyers in charge of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors pleaded for a Walmart case against the government to be pulled into the court coordinating federal multidistrict litigation, saying the legal questions it raises have already been answered by judge overseeing the MDL.
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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.
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - New filings claiming exposure to asbestos caused lung cancer sharply increased by more than 20 percent last year, according to an annual report by a business consultancy firm.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Their request for some $3 billion in fees has generated fierce resistance from state attorneys general and defendants, but don’t worry about the financial states of private lawyers who represent thousands of municipal plaintiffs in opioid litigation.
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NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - The prominent asbestos law firm Simmons Hanly Conroy has been sanctioned by a New York judge for violating a protective order after it leaked the deposition of Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky to reporters at the Reuters news service.
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A proposed “negotiation class” to settle all opioid litigation by U.S. cities and counties could be in deep trouble, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit considers an appeal of the order creating the controversial class and lawyers in two states with big claims urge their clients to opt out before a Nov. 22 deadline.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - It was a stroke of good luck for Cuyahoga and Summit counties in Ohio that U.S. District Judge Dan Polster selected them for the first bellwether trial out of thousands of other cities and counties that are blaming the opioid industry for the nation's addiction crisis.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Recognizing the growing conflict between states and municipalities that are separately suing the opioid industry, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster has removed lawyers that represent both states and cities from any role in negotiating a potential class action settlement of opioid claims.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Stepping forcefully into a debate that has been brewing since private lawyers first started recruiting local governments to sue the opioid industry, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and the National Association of Attorneys General have urged the federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation to reject a proposed “negotiation class” consisting of every city and county in the country.
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NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Two New York consumers allege that LaCroix sparkling water is falsely labeled as all-natural.
