State of Oklahoma, ex. rel. Hunter v. Purdue Pharma, L.P., et. al.
COURT
District Court of Cleveland County, State of Oklahoma
CASE NUMBER
CJ 2017-816
JUDGE
Honorable Thad Balkman
PLAINTIFFS
State of Oklahoma
DEFENDANT
Purdue Pharma et al.
An Oklahoma court ruled that Johnson and Johnson® and other pharmaceutical companies violated the state’s public nuisance law. The court found the defendants engaged in false, misleading, and dangerous opioid marketing campaigns promoting opioids as under-prescribed and as having a low risk for abuse. These campaigns exponentially increased Oklahoma’s opioid addiction rates and overdose deaths and injured or endangered the health or safety of communities in violation of the state’s public nuisance law. Judge Thad Balkman ruled in favor of the State of Oklahoma in the nation’s first opioid trial, requiring defendant Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen to pay $572,102,028 into a fund that will be used to remedy the devastating public nuisance in Oklahoma. Read the decision here.
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