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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The judge overseeing a landmark opioid lawsuit against the nation’s largest pharmacy chains refused to declare a mistrial after a juror performed her own research on a topic plaintiff lawyers raised in cross-examination and shared her results with the rest of the jury.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Lanier Law Firm was among 24 national firms honored for excellence in appellate work during the past year at the National Law Journals...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Lanier Law Firm was among 24 national firms honored for excellence in appellate work during the past year at the National Law Journals...

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – The class action lawsuit against Subway Restaurants over what exactly is in the tuna has initially failed for not being specific enough.

Having admitted on the front end that they won’t present any evidence of specific narcotic prescriptions the pharmacies shouldn’t have filled, lawyers led by Houston attorney Mark Lanier are trying to convince jurors it is the job of the pharmacies to prove they didn’t let improper prescriptions slip through.

CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Pharmacists bear equal responsibility with doctors for allowing prescription painkillers to flood communities, triggering the opioid crisis, former Drug Enforcement Administration official Joe Rannazzisi testified in a landmark trial this week.

A long list of unintended consequences continues to plague the punitive damages system and miscarries justice.

CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - A $500-an-hour plaintiff expert helped attorney Mark Lanier pull together the strands of a landmark public-nuisance case against big pharmacy chains, telling jurors that CVS, Walgreens and Walmart all “collaborated in the campaign of misinformation” about the safety of narcotic painkillers that triggered the opioid crisis.

The nation's big name-brand pharmacy chains including CVS, Walgreens and Walmart face a federal trial that will test their liability for the opioid epidemic.

Four major American pharmacies are now on trial for their role in the Opioid epidemic; 2 Ohio counties have brought a lawsuit.