U.S. Attorney Rebecca C. Lutzko announced recently that William Sims, 46, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced to 195 months (16 years and three months) in prison by U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster after a jury convicted Sims of all seven drug trafficking and firearms charges against him.
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Optum Rx has moved to disqualify the prominent law firm Motley Rice from representing plaintiffs in pivotal upcoming opioid trials, saying Ohio ethics rules prevent the lawyers from using information they learned working as “special assistant attorneys general” for states in private litigation.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The judge overseeing thousands of municipal lawsuits against the opioid industry criticized pharmacy benefit managers who sought to disqualify his special master, saying their bias claims were unreasonable and based upon a privileged email they should have destroyed instead of citing it in a public court filing.
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers representing thousands of government plaintiffs in opioid litigation opposed a request by pharmacy benefit managers to disqualify the special master overseeing their cases, saying an email the PBMs cite as evidence of bias was protected by judicial privilege and merely reflects the judge’s personal thoughts anyway.