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City and County of San Francisco et al v. Purdue Pharma L.P. et al
Case Number:
3:18-cv-07591
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Racketeer/Corrupt Organization
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Firms
- Alston & Bird
- Andrus Anderson
- Arnold & Porter
- Bartlit Beck
- Blood Hurst
- Brownstein Hyatt
- Casey Gerry
- Covington & Burling
- Dechert LLP
- Dentons
- Dovel & Luner
- Farella Braun
- Foley & Lardner
- Gibson Dunn
- Hilgers Graben
- Hueston Hennigan
- Jones Day
- Keller Rohrback
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Levin Papantonio
- Lieff Cabraser
- Manning Curtis
- McCarter & English
- McGuireWoods
- Morgan Lewis
- Motley Rice
- Nassiri & Jung
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Parker Poe
- Peiffer Wolf
- Perkins Coie
- Porter Hedges
- Powell & Majestro
- Quinn Emanuel
- Reed Smith
- Renne Public Law Group
- Robbins Geller
- Robinson Bradshaw
- Ropes & Gray
- Sanford Heisler
- Seeger Weiss
- Sher Edling
- Shook Hardy
- Simmons Hanly
- Skadden Arps
- Skikos Crawford
- Swanson & McNamara
- Weitz & Luxenberg
- Williams & Connolly
- Winston & Strawn
Companies
- Allergan PLC
- Anda Inc.
- Cardinal Health Inc.
- Cencora Inc.
- Cephalon Inc.
- Endo International PLC
- Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC
- Johnson & Johnson
- Mallinckrodt PLC
- McKesson Corp.
- Noramco Inc.
- Par Pharmaceutical Cos. Inc.
- Purdue Pharma LP
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
- Warner Chilcott Limited
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May 19, 2022
SF Fire Dept. Treats 7 Opioid Overdoses Daily, Judge Told
A San Francisco Fire Department official testified in a bellwether opioid bench trial Thursday that opioid abuse has become so prevalent in the city that emergency responders now treat an average of seven overdoses daily, whereas public overdoses were a rare occurrence in the early 2000s.
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May 18, 2022
Many SF Walgreens Opioid Scripts Had Red Flags, Judge Told
An economist hired by the city and county of San Francisco testified in a bellwether opioid bench trial Wednesday that he identified "red flags" raising suspicions about the legitimacy of more than half of the opioid prescriptions Walgreens distributed between 2006 and 2020 in San Francisco.
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May 17, 2022
Teva Unit Marketed Opioid For Off-Label Uses, Judge Hears
Teva unit Cephalon saw sales of its opioid lollipop Actiq soar after it began marketing the product for non-FDA approved off-label uses, a judge heard Tuesday in recorded testimony from ex-Cephalon employees in a bellwether trial over claims the drugmaker and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.
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May 16, 2022
Doctors' Opioid Data Kept From Walgreens Stores, Judge Told
Walgreens tracked the prescription habits of doctors but didn't make the database available to stores because it might "cloud" the judgment of a pharmacist filling a prescription, a judge heard in recorded testimony Monday in a bellwether trial over claims that Walgreens and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.
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May 12, 2022
Walgreens' Priority Was Filling Drug Orders Fast, Judge Told
A former Walgreens pharmacist felt pressured to "fill, fill, fill" prescriptions while working at a pace that made her fear making fatal errors, a California federal judge heard in recorded testimony Thursday in a multibillion-dollar bellwether trial over claims Walgreens and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.
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May 11, 2022
Walgreens' Opioid Orders Like A 'Time Bomb,' Judge Told
The increasing numbers of opioids ordered by Walgreens pharmacies after 2010 felt like an uncontrollable "ticking time bomb," a former warehouse manager for the company said in recorded testimony screened Wednesday at a bellwether trial over claims the drugstore giant and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.
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May 10, 2022
'Catastrophic' SF Opioid Death Toll Like AIDS Era, Judge Told
The medical director overseeing San Francisco's health programs for the city's homeless population compared their "catastrophic" number of opioid deaths to the 1990s AIDS epidemic during testimony Tuesday in a bellwether federal trial over claims Walgreens, Allergan, Teva and Anda illegally fueled the public health crisis.
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May 09, 2022
Massive Opioid Campaign Duped Docs, Bellwether Judge Told
A Stanford addiction expert who's testified in numerous trials brought by governments blaming drugmakers and others for the opioid epidemic testified Monday in San Francisco that doctors, pharmacists and patients were exposed to a "massive misinformation campaign that downplayed the risks and overstated the benefits" of the addictive painkillers.
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April 28, 2022
ER Chief Says Opioid Crisis Feels 'Hopeless' At SF Bellwether
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital's emergency medicine chief took the stand Thursday in a multibillion-dollar bellwether bench trial accusing Walgreens, Allergan, Teva and Anda of illegally fueling the city's opioid epidemic, testifying that "it sometimes feels very hopeless" dealing with the flood of patient suffering stemming from the powerful painkillers.
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April 27, 2022
COVID-19 Cases Won't Stop SF's Opioid Bellwether Trial
The California federal judge presiding over a multibillion-dollar bellwether bench trial on San Francisco's claim that Walgreens, Teva, Allergan and Anda illegally fueled its opioid crisis said Wednesday the trial will proceed despite individuals from both sides testing positive for COVID-19, calling it "an important case for everybody."