The Washington State Attorney General's Office and major drug distributors called off closing arguments set for Tuesday in a monumental opioid trial and shelved the summations until summer, calling to mind recent unexpected twists in other opioid crisis cases.
A Washington state judge declined Tuesday to end a $95 billion trial accusing major drug distributors of inundating the Evergreen State with egregiously excessive shipments of prescription narcotics, but only after sharply questioning the Washington attorney general's case and concluding that the companies have offered "very significant" defenses.