{"id":2814,"date":"2021-06-15T18:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T22:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/law360-quotes-hunter-shkolnik-on-w-va-state-opioid-trial\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:41:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:41:48","slug":"law360-quotes-hunter-shkolnik-on-w-va-state-opioid-trial","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/whitepapers\/law360-quotes-hunter-shkolnik-on-w-va-state-opioid-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Law360 Quotes Hunter Shkolnik on W. VA State Opioid Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Virginia Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state and cities&#8217; claims in consolidated litigation that drug companies&#8217; marketing of opioids created a public nuisance can proceed to trial before a jury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely pleased the West Virginia Supreme Court has stepped in and made clear our counties are entitled to go forward with a jury trial and that opioid pushing defendants must stop filing these frivolous appeals,&#8221; Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, counsel for counties, told Law360 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"download-button\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/19w2Dqi-gqwd3TLLMgcH1OWVilDT-Cg2D\/preview\" download=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Virginia Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state and cities&#8217; claims in consolidated litigation that drug companies&#8217; marketing of opioids created a public nuisance can proceed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":82,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[75,253,254,368,409],"whitepaper-source":[63],"class_list":["post-2814","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-opioid-crisis","whitepaper_category-opioid-epidemic","whitepaper_category-health-and-safety","whitepaper_category-opioid","whitepaper-source-law360"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}