Oklahoma court overturns $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson
By Nate Raymond
Nov 9 (Reuters) - The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $465 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit by the state alleging the drugmaker fueled the opioid epidemic through the deceptive marketing of painkillers.
The court on a 5-1 vote ruled that the state's public nuisance law does not extend to the manufacturing, marketing and sales of prescription opioids and that a trial judge went too far in holding it did. (Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston, Editing by Franklin Paul)
