OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $465 million opioid ruling against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, finding that a lower court wrongly interpreted the state’s public nuisance law in the first case of its kind in the U.S. to go to trial. The Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned a $465 million opioid ruling against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, finding that a lower court wrongly interpreted the state's public nuisance law. But other opioid trials rooted in public nuisance law are happening before juries in a federal court in Cleveland and a state court in New York. Johnson & Johnson said in a statement that the ruling appropriately overturned a “misguided and unprecedented” attempt to expand public nuisance laws. “The Company’s actions relating to the marketing and promotion of these important prescription pain medications were appropriate and responsible.”Earlier this year, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $5 billion to settle similar lawsuits across the U.S.

Source: Huffington Post November 10, 2021 09:29 UTC