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Epidemic, cuyahoga and summit county prosecutors are seeking billions of dollars in damages to help pay the cost of addiction treatment and health care services. opioids, both prescription and illicit, are the leading drivers of drug overdose deaths across the country, jumping from 8,048 in 1999 to 47,600 in 2017. in that same year, ohio ranked in the top five states for opioid deaths. this new lawsuit joins lawsuits filed by 2500 state, local and tribal groups. its considered a bellwether trial...

Work of a teenager. he and lottie had a history. she said it would explain the hideous attack. she told detectives her story. things had started so innocently. dont they always. >> i met him at the paint ball field playing paint ball so we just met by being teammates on the same team. >> she was the captain of her team. kind of a den mother to the other much younger players. especially him, a georgia tech student 12 years her junior. >> he didnt have anybody else he could open up and talk to or ...

Umbrella movement 1st grade not the city in 2014 this year the protests have taken on even more force as the authorities tried to push through a law since scrapped allowing defendants to be extradited to mainland china. to date and he extradition we have bent has brought people to get that 5 years ago people had differing opinions which caused the movement to break up today its very different its. yes well at home at that at. times he is soft of the emperor and a nuisance the hong kong people he...

Been around for a long time has moundville. but its a sad truth, as the sheriff says, even here where everybody used to know everybody -- >> its not that way anymore. so many different people are t moving in from around the world. >> trying to escape the crowds. >> well, escape the crowd or running from something. >> yes. and where have you gone, andy griffith?e >> mayberry has up and left us. sheriff ken ellis fights real crime nowadays. >> the crime here is the same crime you see in any large ...

And the supreme court has specifically said that this is state business so it would be hard for the supreme court action even the roberts court to go in and stomp on a state public nuisance victory. >> you know, its interesting, oklahoma, i believe, the opioids lawsuit is sort of a similar -- its a similar case against the pharmaceutical companies. >> correct and there was a big -- there was a big lead paint public nuisance case in california that was upheld in a very thorough decision by the ca...

Industry, to at some point turn up and tell the truth. in depositions under oath and ultimately perhaps in trial testimony. and theyre not very comfortable telling the truth. they much prefer talking in legislative arenas and in regulatory arenas where they can sp spin things and make stuff up. certainly they lie through their teeth in the public arena and here in congress so getting them in a situation where theyre under oath is important. also being able to get into their files is important di...

Biggest fights on the issue of who pays for this climate change issue. rhode island is suing 21 oil and gas companies for damages related to climate change. you know the names, chevron, shell, exxon, bp, all of them are included in this lawsuit now, the lawsuit claims that not only did those companies contribute to climate change, which has eroded infrastructure and damaged portions of the local environment, but that it did it knowing about the climate change risks and they did it anyway and tha...

Theres only so much we can do and if the federal government doesnt do this, you know what, i guess we have to sue the federal government >> well, there are people suing the federal government already theres the julianna case taking part out in oregon which is the test case for that its not brought by a state, its brought by individual plaintiffs, but i think thats the case there a state has particularly strong standing to deal with public nuisance because theres a big body of law that says that ...

Are told still needs to be done. >> all right let me move to -- very quickly on that, do you think -- do you think youre going to get those answers in a timely manner are you confident of that? or are you nervous youre not? >> no, i think the military and the intelligence agencies are going to very much want to figure that out and that theyll share that information as it comes in >> gotcha. i just -- i just wanted to get from your tone whether you were a little leery of what you were hearing or ...

Pharmaceutical company actually prescribing the medication or selling it to doctors. instead, they provide the narcotics that other companies use to put into their products. in the same way, cities and counties and the state of rhode island around the country are suing oil companies who extract oil out of the ground, refine it, and then sell it to utilities and gas stations. so there is a parallel in using public nuisance law in different states and also trying to hold an intermediary liable for...