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Good morning. We’ve all seen the headlines about the settlements in the litigation over the opioid crisis – but what is happening with all that money? Plus, some major rulings are still looming at the U.S. Supreme Court, and a survey reveals the law schools where students prefer online classes. Thanks for being here – let’s do this.
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A series of landmark settlements with top drug distributors, pharmacies and drugmakers in litigation over the opioid crisis set compensation at a total of more than $50 billion nationwide, and so far, more than $3 billion has been paid out to states. But has that money reached the people who need it? It depends where you live, report Brendan Pierson and Disha Raychaudhuri.
When the money will be paid out, and who will get it, remains far from clear, Reuters reached out to all 50 states and the District of Columbia to ask whether they had a process for non-governmental organizations to apply for funding.
Among the states where money is already reaching organizations on the ground are Massachusetts, Kentucky and Arizona. But the fate of Texas’ share, more than $270 million received to date beginning in December 2021, is less clear.
Most states share a significant portion of their total settlement funds with their city and county governments, which make their own independent decisions about how to spend it. The lack of clarity about how the money will be spent is reflected in the experiences of more than a dozen advocates and workers dealing with opioid addiction who spoke to Reuters for this story.
Read more about what is happening with the money.
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- Jim Trusty, the former U.S. Justice Department official who resigned from defending Donald Trump in the criminal case over his handling of classified documents, also asked to withdraw his representation for the former president in an unrelated defamation lawsuit against CNN. Trusty cited “irreconcilable differences” in a court filing in Florida federal court, underscoring tensions within Trump’s circle of lawyers, which for months has been rife with reports of infighting. (Reuters)
- Baker Botts said that Houston-based Danny David, who helps lead the firm’s litigation department, has been elected as its new managing partner. David’s four-year term starts on Aug. 1, when he will take over from John Martin, the firm’s current managing partner. (Reuters)
- Deborah Curtis, a former CIA deputy general counsel, joined Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer’s white-collar defense and investigations group in Washington, D.C., where she will focus on national security matters. (Reuters)
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“It never even dawned on me that this technology could be deceptive.“
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- Attorney regulators in California will hold a disciplinary hearing for John Eastman, who represented former President Donald Trump in a long-shot lawsuit to overturn voting results in four states that Trump lost in the 2020 election. Eastman, a former Chapman University law professor, represented Trump before the U.S. Supreme Court in a lawsuit filed by Texas and 16 other U.S. states in a bid to invalidate the electoral results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The California State Bar is seeking to disbar Eastman, who is facing 11 counts of ethics violations, including misleading courts and making false public statements about voter fraud in the 2020 election.
- PIM Brands will go before the 3rd Circuit to argue that German candy maker Haribo copied its trademarked design for a trapezoid-shaped watermelon candy PIM calls Sour Jacks. A New Jersey federal court tossed PIM’s lawsuit against Haribo after finding that the design was ineligible for trademark protection because it is functional, informing customers that the candy is watermelon flavored. PIM says that ruling wrongly focuses only on the color of the candy, not on its distinctive shape.
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- On Wednesday, Jack Douglas Teixeira, the U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking top-secret military intelligence records online, will appear in a federal court in Massachusetts for his arraignment on some of the most serious security breach charges. Teixeira has been indicted on six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information relating to national defense, each of which provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, up to three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.
- Starting Thursday, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth W. Hanes will hold a four-day hearing on Centripetal Networks’ patent lawsuit against Cisco Systems. Centripetal was previously awarded over $2.7 billion in damages by U.S. District Judge Henry Morgan Norfolk, Virginia. But the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the case after finding Morgan should have recused himself from the case once he learned that his wife owned 100 Cisco shares worth $4,688. The court ordered the case reassigned to another judge, because letting Morgan stay on risked undermining public confidence in the judicial process.
- On Friday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office faces a deadline to reply to Donald Trump’s written arguments in support of his motion to move the criminal case against him from state court to federal court. Trump is charged with falsifying business records connected to a hush money payment allegedly made to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has pushed back against the move, arguing that Trump is not entitled to the change in venue because he is not a federal officer.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Bristol Myers Squibb sued the U.S. government in an attempt to halt the Medicare drug price negotiation program that analysts believe will involve one of its top-selling medicines, saying it violates the Fifth and First Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. This is the third lawsuit so far challenging the law — part of President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act — which the pharmaceutical industry says will curtail profits and compel them to pull back on developing groundbreaking new treatments. (Reuters)
- The U.S. Supreme Court preserved the DOJ’s power to unilaterally dismiss lawsuits filed under a law that lets whistleblowers sue businesses on behalf of the government to recover taxpayer money paid to companies based on false claims in exchange for a portion of any recovery. The 8-1 ruling, written by liberal Justice Elena Kagan, upheld a lower court’s decision to allow the DOJ to toss a lawsuit against a UnitedHealth Group unit by former employee Jesse Polansky, who accused the company of wrongdoing. (Reuters)
- A federal court blocked Tesla’s effort to challenge Louisiana’s ban on direct-to-consumer car sales as uncompetitive and unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance ruled in part that Tesla’s argument that the law violates the Commerce Clause fails because the company didn’t show how the legislature intended to discriminate against out-of-state interests. (Reuters)
- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will not have to sit for a second deposition in the U.S. Virgin Islands’ lawsuit over the bank’s work for Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and sex offender. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan denied “in its entirety” the U.S. Virgin Islands’ request to again have Dimon and another JPMorgan employee testify under oath. (Reuters)
- Alphabet’s Google sued a Los Angeles man and his companies in San Jose, California, federal court, claiming he created hundreds of fake business listings on its platforms and sold them to real businesses to lure in unsuspecting customers. Google’s lawsuit said Ethan QiQi Hu creates sham businesses that appear in its search engine and Google Maps, using an “elaborate set of props” to verify them on video calls with the tech giant’s agents. (Reuters)
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