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Texas
Tribune Daily Brief
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Brief for Sept 9 |
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In
today's Brief: A Friday hearing was the latest development in a five-year
lawsuit over the heat in Texas prisons.
Elvia Limón, Texas Tribune 09/09/2019   
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| South
Dakota County Joins Growing Opioid Lawsuit |
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Pennington
County, South Dakota has joined a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and
distributors. The lawsuit accuses the defendants, including Purdue Pharma and
Johnson & Johnson, of misrepresenting the addictive nature of the drugs to
doctors and patients. On Tuesday, the board of commissioners voted unanimously
to declare opioids a "public nuisance" and take legal action. The lawsuit
currently includes 51 cities and counties.
Arielle Zionts, Rapid City Journal 09/07/2019
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Opioid Talks Collapse, Purdue Expected to File Bankruptcy |
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Purdue
Pharma is expected to file for bankruptcy after settlement talks over the
nation's deadly overdose crisis hit an impasse, attorneys general involved in
the talks said Saturday. The breakdown puts the first federal trial over the
opioid epidemic on track to begin next month, likely without Purdue, and sets
the stage for a complex legal drama involving nearly every state and hundreds
of local governments. An email from the attorneys general of Tennessee and
North Carolina, obtained by The Associated Press, said that Purdue and the
Sackler family had rejected two offers from the states over how payments under
any settlement would be handled and that the family declined to offer
counterproposals.
Geoff Mulvihill and Mark Gillispie, AP, Yahoo News 09/09/2019
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| Mallinckrodt
to Pay $24M in Cash to Settle Opioid Lawsuits with Two Ohio Counties |
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Mallinckrodt
plc said on Friday it had agreed to pay $24 million in cash to two counties in
Ohio, to settle lawsuits related to an ongoing multidistrict opioid litigation
in the United States. The development comes as opioid makers in the country
face a string of lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for fueling the
opioid addiction crisis.
Reuters, Reuters 09/09/2019
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| Denver
Doctor Settles Opioid Wrongful Death Lawsuit |
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Dr.
Andrew Hong settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount of money while a
jury deliberated after a six-day trial in Denver District Court. The
settlement comes as Colorado ramps up its enforcement of dangerous prescribing
practices and, at the state level, takes on the pharmaceutical companies that
create the addictive medicines.
ELISE SCHMELZER , Denver Post 09/09/2019
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Denver Post
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| Lawsuit:
DoorDash Negligent in Hiring Driver |
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A Las
Vegas restaurant owner who says he was stabbed last year by a DoorDash driver
is suing the delivery service, claiming it was negligent in hiring a felon
with a history of violence and mental illness.
KEN RITTER, AP, Yahoo News 09/09/2019
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Yahoo News
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Deaths, Illnesses Linked to Vaping |
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Nationwide,
U.S. health officials said Friday that they're now investigating more than 450
cases of possible vaping-related illnesses in 33 states.
CBS/Associated Press, CBSNews.com 09/09/2019
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