Oklahoma Supreme Court overturns $435 million J&J opioid ruling
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Oklahoma Supreme Court justices have reversed a district court decision that ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay hundreds of millions to the state for its role in the opioid crisis.
In the justices' 5-1 decision filed Tuesday, they wrote that the district court "erred" by holding Johnson & Johnson liable under the state's public nuisance statute for its opioid prescription marketing campaign.
"We hold that the district court's expansion of public nuisance law went too far. Oklahoma public nuisance law does not extend to the manufacturing, marketing, and selling of prescription opioids," Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice James Winchester wrote in his opinion.
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