Andrew C. Spiropoulos - December 08, 2021 at 03:20PM
Right Thinking: State Supreme Court demonstrates admirable restraint
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The problem with the state’s case against Johnson & Johnson was that, while the language of the law is broad enough to encompass the state’s claims, the statute, which is over a century old, has never been used in the context of holding an industry responsible for the misuse of its products. As the Supreme Court rightly concluded, the judiciary does not possess the legitimate authority to rewrite public nuisance law. There remain other legal vehicles for holding the drug companies accountable for their role in the epidemic, including product liability suits and taxation of their profits to fund remedial programs.
Andrew C. Spiropoulos - December 08, 2021 at 03:20PM Right Thinking: State Supreme Court demonstrates admirable restraint Click on the headline to read the full article at
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Andrew SpiropoulosFormer Senior Counselor to the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Professor Spiropoulos previously clerked for Judge Danny Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced law with the Chicago firm of Gardner, Carton & Douglas. He has been a Heritage Foundation Salvatori Fellow and is an adjunct scholar with the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, where he was named the 2011 Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow. He was the reporter for the Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act. Archives
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