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Living a nightmare the nightmare at prescription drug abuse now the 1st of thousands of lawsuits aimed at holding manufacturers and distributors to account has made it through trial cleveland county district judge that borkman a set prosecutors have proven johnson and johnson to create a public nuisance that would take decades to repair. it all today judge walker has affirmed our position that johnson and johnson motivated by greed and avarice is responsible for the opioid epidemic. johnson and ...

Pay $572 million for fueling the opioid crisis in oklahoma. lauren blanchard has more on the next step. >> the opioid crisis ravaged the state of oklahoma. >> a judge deciding the actions of johnson & johnson and its subsidiaries are responsible for helping to fuel oklahomas opioid epidemic. >> a plan that consists of 7 and $52,001,020. >> family members of some of the victims were in the courtroom when the ruling came down. prosecutors argued the companies were motivated by greed and created a ...

>> now, this was the nations first civil case holding a pharmaceutical company partially accountable for the addiction to opioids. of course, as you said, it sets this legal precedent now for all of the other pending cases against other opioid manufacturers and distributors, like cvs, walgreens, and walmarts. shannon? s? >> shannon: casey stegall in dallas, thank you several states have been hurt dominic hit hard by this crisis, including west virginia, which has the nations highest death rate f...

President said he is working on suing and johnson & johnson has decided to appeal. a summit between the iranian any chance? >> i think they have a small president rouhani and president trump to have been in chance. just the next few weeks, it was i agree with the judges ruling, but theyre going to argue a few a big surprise. things on appeal. the world wants a deal as soon as possible. they will say that they are the g7 affirm that completely. responsible for less than 1% of president trump said...

>> misleading marketing and promotion of opioids created a nuisance. >> johnson & johnson did not cause the opiate abuse crisis here in oklahoma, or anywhere in this country. we have many strong grounds for appeal and we intend to pursue those vigorously. >> im asking the ceo of that company to get his checkbook out and write his check so we can start again addressing the problems they have created in our state. >> bret: $572 million check, oklahomas attorney general there. 48 states have now su...

Take the big picture approach for the way companies could potentially be liable for opioid crisis in this country? what does it mean going forward? >> on the one hand, this decision in oklahoma could be narrowly construed because of nuisance law. traditionally, this is a law that says if you play your music too loud on your property or there theres noxious fumes, youre interfering with someone elses use of their property. but oklahoma is somewhat unique in that its nuisance law does not contain ...

Which is what were focusing on, the judge, what he did is went through an abatement plan and said this is a public nuisance and now weve got to address the nuisance. in his order he goes through 10 or 12 items that need to be done based on the evidence in that case to address the nuisance. and he lists the costs as 9 evidence showed and he adds the numbers up. thats where the 572 goes. theoretically, what should happen is the money should come in and under a court-supervised program the money wi...

Plans that will be necessary going forward to end this crisis of opioid addiction. as far as this particular suit goes, oklahoma took a relatively narrow path based on a state law that made it possible to pursue a theory called nuisance. essentially saying the company created a public nuisance with the drugs they made available and that they promoted and now they have to pay to abate that problem. we may not see that same legal theory used, but the evidence that was accumulated by the oklahoma c...

Johnson&johnson ruling i guess for the first time implicating a major drug company. what do you make of that ruling and the presetting for other ca. >> it is similar to a nuisance case, you play your music too loud. in this case, the oklahoma attorney general allows for any pharmaceutical company to be held responsible. thats why they ordered this multimillion dollar abatement. they now have to pay money to fix the nuisance that they created. >> okay. lets go to the mossimo and lori

Alexandra field. shes in norman, oklahoma, for us. alexandria, tell us more about this landmark ruling against johnson & johnson. >> reporter: good evening, wolf. it is an historic ruling, of course, oklahoma being the first state to take to trial a pharmaceutical company, alleging that company fueled the opioid crisis, a crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of american lives in the last two decades. the impact of this ruling could be far-reaching, but it is also being felt right here a...