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California Says No General Failure to Thwart Drug Use Claim

By Michelle Yeary on March 13, 2018
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Today’s case isn’t about prescription drugs, but rather illegal drugs. More specifically, whether a user of illegal drugs can recover in a civil action against someone who failed to prevent the user from obtaining the drugs. While this is outside our usual field of focus, we have posted about the in pari delicto doctrine before…

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The Opioid Epidemic – What Kind of a Problem Is It?

By Bexis on November 27, 2017
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We know that our blogposts are carried by legal aggregating services, such as Lexology and JDSupra.  Some of you may even be reading this post via one of these services.  In addition to writing for them, we actually read them, too.  Sometimes we find interesting things on them – like last week.

A bit…

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