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There is some evidence that the oil companies helped fund the tea party movement. and as if you watch the tea party movement, one of the issues that activists became very opposed to was action on climate change. in addition again to just a more general advertising campaign, claiming for example, in an infamous ad that carbon dioxide is good for you. >> lyle remarkable. public nuisance. is that going to be -- is that going to be an easy argument to win in some of the redder states in a place like...

Patients. heres the connection. in the same way johnson & johnson provided opioids to doctors knowing they were harmful, oil companies sell products to gas stations companl their products to gas stations and utility products knowing the harmful environmental consequences. anne carlson is professional of environmental law at ucla school of law. she has also done some pro bono consulting in cases against big oil. so anne, walk me through the. decision and the intermediary factor comes into play wi...

Embarrassment, something that could have been, you know, explained away or apologized or otherwise made to disappear pretty quickly has now extended itself into a 10, 12-day, you know, story and on top of that own inspector general looking at the origin of the statement that repudiated the weather forecasters in alabama. and now today the house science committee, which is majority democrats, launched their own inquiry. that may or may not add up to anything. it may not be anything wrong. maybe t...

Know, story and on top of that we now have two investigations. we have the commerce departments own inspector general looking at the origin of the statement that repudiated the weather forecasters in alabama. and now today the house science committee, which is majority democrats, launched their own inquiry. that may or may not add up to anything. it may not be anything wrong. maybe the white house is simply doing what it was allowed to do. but now suddenly it will face weeks if not months of ans...

Embarrassment, something that could have been, you know, explained away or apologized or otherwise made to disappear pretty quickly has now extended itself into a 10, 12-day, you know, story and on top of that we now have two investigations. we have the commerce departments own inspector general looking at the origin of the statement that repudiated the weather forecasters in alabama. and now today the house science committee, which is majority democrats, launched their own inquiry. that may or ...

Chicken. but apparently this chicken is not just chicken. so somethings inside this chicken, and i think we need to hold an investigation. and we need to find who these people are, because theyre dangerous, theyre reckless, and a public nuisance. >> this is carrying "love that chicken" from popeyes way too far. >> just too far. e.j., what else is on your list at the end of this crazy week? >> well, i was caught by a story about ariana grande, partly because i think ariana grande wrote the theme ...

They have to be provided by government-licensed pharmacies. they were not, the a.g. was not able to show that johnson & johnson did anything illegal, let alone criminal here. paul: so did he even try to show what you would call a line of causation from their manufacturer, distribution, marketing to doctors and then on to patients that you would normally have to establish for product liability? >> no. they basically dodged around most product liability by using this, quote-unquote, public nuisanc...

Week ordered johnson & johnson to pay $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis, siding with state attorney general mike hunter who claimed that the drugmaker aggressively marketed opioids to doctors while repeatedly downplaying the risks of addiction. those sales practice, the state argued, led to an oversupply of the painkillers and created a public nuisance. a legal argument and ruling that could have far-reaching and maybe dangerous consequences. were back with our panel. allysia, you w...

Arent doing -- theyre misdirecting the worry out there, and then also theres a benefit for them, right? they get these deep pockets, and it provides a lot of money for the state government that theyre suing on behalf of. paul: yeah, kate, it doesnt look like any individual patients are really going to benefit here, much of the money will go into state coffers and, of course, the trial lawyers who brought this public nuisance theory to mr. hunter are going to get a big bundle of cash. so the ques...

Of heroin, of even meth and other drugs that people are using and overdosing on. so i think its one of those cases where public is looking for someone to blame, but its a large, intractable social problem with many authors. paul: allysia, do you think j&j is going to appeal here, do you think it should keep fighting on? >> well, i do think it should keep fighting on all the way to the u.s. supreme court if necessary in order to establish some kind of precedent perhaps for other cases. there are ...