U.S. judge approves novel framework for opioid settlement talks

A federal judge on Wednesday approved the substance of a proposal by lawyers rep...

- A federal judge on Wednesday approved the substance of a proposal by lawyers representing cities and counties suing drug companies over the U.S. opioid epidemic that would bring every state and municipality in the country into their settlement talks.

U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, in Cleveland, Ohio, federal court, said that the plan, which was opposed by 37 states and the District of Columbia, “does not interfere with the states settling their own cases any way they want.”

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