CHARLESTON â A Charleston federal judge expects a trial courtroom will be limited to attorneys, witnesses and court officials as Huntington, Cabell County and opioid distributors inch toward a May trial date.
Lawsuits on behalf of the municipalities were filed in 2017 against AmerisourceBergen Corp., McKesson and Cardinal Health â the âBig Threeâ drug distributors â which are accused of being a public nuisance by blindly pumping pain pills into Appalachia, thus fueling opioid and later heroin addiction.
The lawsuits argue the distributors breached their duty to monitor, detect, investigate, refuse and report suspicious orders of prescription opiates.
The sides met for a virtual pretrial hearing Wednesday to debate outstanding motions, at which time Judge David A. Faber also discussed logistics for the trial, which is set to start May 3.
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