Virginia Federal Judge Stays All But 1 Municipal Opioid Suit Pending JPMDL Decision

(February 19, 2019, 1:29 PM EST) -- ROANOKE, Va. — A Virginia federal judge on Feb. 14 stayed all but one of 12 lawsuits filed by Virginia municipalities against various opioid defendants pending a decision by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPMDL) on whether the cases should be transferred into the opioid multidistrict litigation or remanded to Virginia state courts (City of Galax, Virginia v. Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al., No. 18-617, W.D. Va., Roanoke Div., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 24443)....

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