U.S. District Judge Dan Poster concluded that pharmacies have an obligation on the corporate-level to design and implement policies and procedures to identify red flag prescriptions of opioids, according to the pharmacies. "This is just another example of the chain pharmacy defendants going on hands and knees begging to be relieved of their obligations to provide important prescription data will show the huge flow of pills into the community ... next we will see their baseless attempt to avoid trial," said Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, who represents the counties.