Opioid Lawsuits: Is There Any End in Sight?

The opioid epidemic has led to a surge in litigation against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retail pharmacy chains. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the legal landscape surrounding opioid lawsuits. It discusses the chemical nature of opioids, marketing practices of Purdue Pharma and others, and the largely unsuccessful personal injury cases brought against Purdue by private individuals prior to 2014. The article also examines the public nuisance doctrine—the most popular liability theory invoked by government plaintiffs—and analyzes three of the most important litigation pathways: (1) suits by individual government entities, usually states; (2) multidistrict litigation (MDL); and (3) bankruptcy proceedings. Finally, it considers some of the problems associated with the adjudication and settlement of mass tort cases such as opioid litigation. [AI generated abstract

Appeal No. 1019: King Oil Company, Inc. v. Division of Oil & Gas Resources Management

Review of Chief\u27s Order 2022-231 to 2022-236 (Plug Orders

Investment Crowdsourcing

Event Description ‘Investment crowdfunding’ is a new and inclusive form of online venture capital market open to all investors, both retail and accredited. It’s like Kickstarter, except the backer gets a share of stock, which would be an illegal public offering of unregistered securities—absent the special exemption adopted as part of the federal JOBS Act of 2012. Since then, many other jurisdictions—including Canada, Australia and the EU—have enacted analogous legal regimes, each a bit different than the others. Schwartz recently published the definitive guide to investment crowdfunding, based on ten years of on-the-ground research, including as a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand. He will address the law and practice of investment crowdfunding in the United States, and compare it with other jurisdictions. Speaker Bio Andrew A. Schwartz, Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, is a leading international scholar in the field of investment crowdfunding, and the author of a new book on the subject, Investment Crowdfunding (Oxford University Press). Schwartz earned an engineering degree from Brown University and a law degree from Columbia University, then clerked for two federal judges and practiced corporate law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. He entered academia in 2008, when he joined the law faculty of the University of Colorado. He teaches and publishes on corporate, securities, and contract law, and his many articles have appeared in leading journals including the UCLA Law Review and the Yale Journal on Regulation. In 2017, he served as a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand, where he studied investment crowdfundin

Other Inhumane Acts of a Similar Character Intentionally Causing Great Suffering. Does Ecocide Fit Within the Bounds of Crimes Against Humanity?

Article 7(1)(k) of the Rome Statute includes “other inhumane acts of a similar character,” within the enumerated acts of Crimes Against Humanity. This Note examines whether certain acts of ecocide may be prosecuted by the ICC under this provision, proposes a definition for ecocide in a Crimes Against Humanity context, and analyzes whether Bolsonaro’s destruction of the Amazon as alleged by 2021 AllRise Complaint could be prosecuted in the ICC as a Crime Against Humanity