U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Recent News About U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
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Not bad for government work: Opioid lawyers average almost $700 per hour
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Private lawyers working for state and municipal governments will be paid almost $700 an hour for their work in negotiating some $26 billion in settlements with the opioid industry. -
Law firm wants client data back from debt-settlement company
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Following a split, a law firm representing clients troubled by debt has gone to court to retrieve their information from a settlement company. -
Salmonella class action over Jif peanut butter fails
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - J.M. Smucker has defeated a class action complaint filed over a Salmonella outbreak in its Jif peanut butter and brought by plaintiffs who did not allege they were made sick. -
Walmart gets class action over price discrepancy out of court
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Walmart has headed off a proposed class action over its online prices by invoking an arbitration clause to which customers agree when placing an order. -
Ohio jail faces wrongful death suit after diabetic dies
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - The estate of an Ohio inmate is suing the prison and staff after he died from diabetes. -
Opioid defendant wants Motley Rice disqualified, citing government work
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Optum Rx has moved to disqualify the prominent law firm Motley Rice from representing plaintiffs in pivotal upcoming opioid trials, saying Ohio ethics rules prevent the lawyers from using information they learned working as “special assistant attorneys general” for states in private litigation. -
Class action says Gamestop charges for free shipping
AKRON, Ohio (Legal Newsline) — Gamestop faces a class action lawsuit that says it adds a shipping and handling charge, even when customers qualify for free shipping. -
Opioid judge: 'No reasonable observer' could think special master biased after 'reply all' incident
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The judge overseeing thousands of municipal lawsuits against the opioid industry criticized pharmacy benefit managers who sought to disqualify his special master, saying their bias claims were unreasonable and based upon a privileged email they should have destroyed instead of citing it in a public court filing. -
Opioid plaintiffs fight bias charge against case's special master who hit 'reply all' on email
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers representing thousands of government plaintiffs in opioid litigation opposed a request by pharmacy benefit managers to disqualify the special master overseeing their cases, saying an email the PBMs cite as evidence of bias was protected by judicial privilege and merely reflects the judge’s personal thoughts anyway. -
Ohio Supreme Court to say if public nuisance applies to opioids
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - The federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to answer the central question behind a $650 million federal court judgment against Walgreens, CVS and Walmart over opioid claims: Does Ohio law allow “public nuisance” lawsuits based on the sale of legal products? -
Norfolk Southern attacks CERCLA lawsuit following East Palestine derailment as vague
AKRON, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Norfolk Southern is confused by a lawsuit brought by residents of East Palestine, Ohio, and a business there following the February derailment of one of its trains. -
Opioid judge slams 'insulting' suggestion he's pressuring defendants to settle
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The federal judge who has presided over more than $26 billion in opioid settlements and once threatened companies with bankruptcy if they tried to fight the claims against them in court attacked lawyers for a pharmacy benefit manager for suggesting he is trying to coerce a new class of defendants into settling. -
Ohio residents claim Norfolk Southern's 'run until it breaks' pattern caused derailment
Ohio residents claim Norfolk Southern's 'run until it breaks' pattern caused derailment -
Ohio Attorney General claims Norfolk Southern ignored multiple warning signs before derailment
AKRON, Ohio (Legal Newsline) — Ohio's attorney general has filed a complaint against Norfolk Southern over its February 2023 derailment that resulted in the release of multiple hazardous substances. -
Cities, counties swim against tide pulling them toward state opioid settlements
A handful of municipalities are fighting efforts to force them to sign on to opioid settlements negotiated by state attorneys general and private lawyers, as the nation's largest pharmacy chains have offered $13.8 billion to resolve litigation. -
Opioid lawyers seek $174 million bond as pharmacies appeal Polster's verdict
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers representing two Ohio counties that won $651 million in damages from pharmacies they accused of causing the opioid epidemic have asked the judge who handed down that verdict to order them to post a $174 million bond while they pursue their appeals. -
Latest opioid ruling puts MDL judge further out of step on public nuisance
A federal judge soundly rejected the “public nuisance” theory behind most opioid litigation, further isolating the judge in charge of thousands of similar lawsuits who has consistently ruled in favor of plaintiffs on this very question. -
Morriey asks Ohio federal judge for clarification on state law regarding opioid cases
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sent a letter to U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster, who is overseeing the multidistrict litigation for the opioid crisis asking him to explain when West Virginia’s law applies in lawsuits brought by municipalities against health care providers. -
After plaintiff lawyers rebel, opioid judge backpedals on fees
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The federal judge in charge of multidistrict opioid litigation walked back an order that set off a rebellion among plaintiff lawyers who complained it would interfere with their cases in state court and steer billions of dollars in fees to a small group of attorneys who dominate the federal litigation. -
Judge who wanted to 'do something' about opioid crisis now deciding who pays
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - A two-week bench trial to determine how much three national pharmacy chains must pay to solve a “public nuisance” of opioid abuse in two Ohio counties began with a fundamental dispute over what that nuisance is.