{"id":21141,"date":"2026-02-24T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/?post_type=whitepapers&#038;p=21141"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:04:10","slug":"paul-napoli-publishes-bloomberg-op-ed-municipalities-have-a-duty-to-sue","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/libros-blancos\/paul-napoli-publishes-bloomberg-op-ed-municipalities-have-a-duty-to-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Napoli Publishes Bloomberg Op-Ed: Municipalities Have a Duty to Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli Shkolnik partner <a href=\"https:\/\/nsprlaw.com\/en\/attorneys\/paul-j-napoli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pablo J. N\u00e1poles<\/a> makes a forceful case for municipal participation in mass tort litigation in a new op-ed published in <em>Ley Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s decisions will shape tomorrow\u2019s budgets, infrastructure, and community health,&#8221; Napoli writes, arguing that local governments have not just the right but the duty to pursue corporations whose conduct has imposed lasting costs on their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The op-ed lays out why governmental entities occupy a unique legal position in mass tort cases, pointing to concrete results and addressing common objections and misconceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/legal-exchange-insights-and-commentary\/municipal-governments-have-a-duty-to-sue-in-large-tort-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>aqu\u00ed<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli Shkolnik partner Paul J. Napoli makes a forceful case for municipal participation in mass tort litigation in a new op-ed published in Bloomberg Law. &#8220;Today\u2019s decisions will shape tomorrow\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[],"whitepaper-source":[],"class_list":["post-21141","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/21141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/21141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=21141"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=21141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}