Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Jun. 7, 2021
4 pharma companies say state has not made its case in Orange County trial
After the state’s seven-week case in chief, four pharmaceutical companies including Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., the makers of the opioid painkiller Opana, asked Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson to rule in their favor. If he does, the companies could forgo making a case at trial.
The state failed to show that opioid makers knew their marketing would lead to an opioid epidemic, the drug companies' attorneys argued in motions for judgment in a $50 billion bench trial in Orange County
After the state's seven-week case in chief, four pharmaceutical companies including Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., the makers of the opioid painkiller Opana, asked Orange County Superior Court Judge
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