Opioid MDL Judge Sets New Pharmacy Bellwether Trial For May 2021 Despite Protest

(May 1, 2020, 1:56 PM EDT) -- CLEVELAND — Fifteen days after an appeals court gutted half of the claims against pharmacy chains in an upcoming opioid multidistrict litigation bellwether trial, the presiding judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on April 30 selected two cases for a new Track Three trial that will include all plaintiff claims (In Re:  National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL Docket No. 2804, No. 17-md-2804, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Div.)....