West Virginia City’s Opioid Lawsuit Against Distributors Will Stay In Federal Court

Mealey's (August 16, 2017, 12:27 PM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia federal judge on Aug. 3 denied remand of a city’s lawsuit against three opioid distributors because of diversity of citizenship and because there’s no possible connection between the distributor’s actions and those of a West Virginia doctor who was also named as a defendant (The City Of Huntington v. AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation, et al., No. 17-1362, S.D. W.Va., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 124462)....

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