The judge ordered the New Jersey-based drugmaker to pay $465 million in reimbursement for tax dollars spent dealing with the social ills tied to the epidemic. The ruling marks a turn-around for J&J, which was found by an Oklahoma judge in 2019 to have spawned a public nuisance in the state through its opioid marketing. Read More: J&J, Distributors Unveil $26 Billion Opioid Deal With States Teva officials had no immediate comment on the ruling. John Hueston, a lawyer for Endo, said the judge properly found the company “did not make false or misleading statements, and Endo’s lawful conduct did not cause the widespread public nuisance at issue in plaintiffs’ complaint.”

J&J said in a statement it is pleased Wilson found its Janssen unit’s opioid marketing and promotion “were appropriate and responsible and did not cause any public nuisance.” “The court finds plaintiffs failed to prove an actionable public nuisance for which the defendants are legally liable,” Wilson concluded in a 42-page ruling. opioid epidemic, which has claimed the lives of almost 500,000 Americans over the last two decades. Officials in Los Angeles, Santa Clara and Orange counties and the city of Oakland sought as much as $50 billion to beef up policing and treatment budges depleted by the epidemic.It’s the first time a judge or jury has rejected claims by states or local governments that ex-opioid makers should be held liable for the fallout from the U.S. and other former opioid makers scored the pharmaceutical industry’s first win in the sprawling four-year litigation over the drugs, defeating a suit by local governments in California that claimed they created a public-health crisis through misleading marketing.Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson in Santa Ana on Monday rejected claims that units of J&J, Teva, Endo International Plc and Abbvie Inc.’s Allergan Plc duped doctors and patients about the addictiveness of opioid painkillers and created a so-called “public nuisance” tied to the medications. (Bloomberg) - Johnson & Johnson, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

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