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West Virginia local governments secure $400M settlement from opioid distributors

JURIST

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey Monday announced cities and counties across the state agreed to a $400 million settlement with three opioid distributors. of fueling the opioid crisis in West Virginia. West Virginia has a long history of litigation with opioid distributors.

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West Virginia Becomes Ground Zero in Fight for Opioid Accountability

The Crime Report

The trial will be the first courtroom test of a legal theory put forward in more than 3,000 other lawsuits: That the wholesalers created a “public nuisance” by letting prescription drugs flow into the community unchecked, and that now they need to pay to abate the problems it created. Lawyers for Huntington, W.V., AmerisourceBergen Corp.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently O

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Self-Help Information by the Courts in 2021

CourtTechBulletin

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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Kafka in America: When Judges Don’t Know the Law

The Crime Report

That sets up a situation in hundreds of civil legal cases involving small claims suits, evictions and other minor disputes, where the only individual in the courtroom who is aware of the law is the attorney for the prosecution, say the authors of the paper, Sara Sternberg Greene and Kristen Renberg, both of the Duke University School of Law.

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February oral argument scheduled for stay applications in “good neighbor” pollution rule challenges

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in February on whether to freeze a plan created by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce ozone levels across the United States while litigation over the plan continues in a federal appeals court. Three states – Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia – went to D.C.

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CLE – Complex Cases Simplified – 11/19/25

Connor Reporting

Whether your complex case is in the area of bankruptcy, intellectual property, antitrust, construction defect, class action, international trade, business litigation or any other area of complex litigation — there are key tools that can set your case up for success. The Wisconsin BBE accredits all Veritext programs for 1.0