{"id":14377,"date":"2022-11-03T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/18fbf770e8.nxcli.io\/?post_type=whitepapers&#038;p=14377"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:23:48","slug":"cities-counties-swim-against-tide-pulling-them-toward-state-opioid-settlements","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/whitepapers\/cities-counties-swim-against-tide-pulling-them-toward-state-opioid-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities, counties swim against tide pulling them toward state opioid settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A handful of municipalities are fighting efforts to force them to sign on to opioid settlements negotiated by state attorneys general and private lawyers, as the nation&#8217;s largest pharmacy chains have offered $13.8 billion to resolve litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an order last week, U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster asked Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to opine on the constitutionality of a statute passed in May that required municipal plaintiffs to honor settlements negotiated at the state level. The Hospital Authority of Wayne County is challenging the law, <a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/statute\/code-of-georgia\/title-10-commerce-and-trade\/chapter-13b-state-wide-opioid-settlement-agreement\/section-10-13b-1-legislative-findings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia Code 10-13B-1<\/a>, saying the Georgia Constitution bars retroactive laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legalnewsline.com\/stories\/634573588-cities-counties-swim-against-tide-pulling-them-toward-state-opioid-settlements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Find the original article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of municipalities are fighting efforts to force them to sign on to opioid settlements negotiated by state attorneys general and private lawyers, as the nation&#8217;s largest pharmacy chains&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":23,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[],"whitepaper-source":[],"class_list":["post-14377","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/14377","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\/14377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=14377"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=14377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}