Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter dismissed without prejudice several claims filed against opioid manufacturers, including Purdue Pharma, Teva (TEVA) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), saying he is “refocusing the case on its central claim, abating the public nuisance caused by the companies’ decades-long fraudulent marketing campaigns.” The public nuisance claim provides the state with a comprehensive plan to address and remediate the effects the opioid crisis continues to have across the state, the AG said. Dismissing the claims without prejudice does not limit the state’s ability to reassert these claims in the future if necessary. Nor does it reduce the amount of damages the state is seeking from the defendants in the lawsuit. The trial remains set to begin May 28. Attorney General Hunter said: “Moving forward with the state’s public nuisance claim moots most of the issues raised by the defendants in discovery, allowing the parties and the judge to focus on preparing for this trial, set to begin in less than eight weeks.”
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