Are closed today for the Memorial Day holiday I m Jack Speer from n.p.r. News in Washington. A major test of whether states can hold pharmaceutical firms responsible for the nation s opioid crisis in court is set to kick off this week an Oklahoma State Attorney General Mike Hunter in a trial set to get underway tomorrow is expected to argue the marketing practices of giant Johnson and Johnson played a role in widespread opioid addiction in that state the case is the 1st to go to trial of some 2000 lawsuits brought against states by local municipalities and Native American tribes against pharmaceutical firms is real based have a pharmaceuticals announced over the weekend it s agreed to an $85000000.00 settlement Oxycontin maker produce pharma also graduates own settlement in March Missouri s governor signed a law banning most abortions after 8 weeks of pregnancy as N.P.R. s share McCammon explains it s the latest in a series of restrictive laws passed by several states this year in a s