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Judge rejects effort to limit Rx evidence in opioid liability lawsuit

April 19, 2022 Reprints

A federal judge on April 18 refused to bar San Francisco from introducing evidence about lobbying efforts by drugmakers and Walgreens Boots Alliance in a trial set to start soon over the city's claims that the companies fueled the opioid epidemic, Reuters reports. The ruling is a setback for Walgreens and the drugmakers – AbbVie Inc's Allergan, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and affiliates of Endo International PLC – which have said that evidence about individual overdoses could "severely prejudice" a jury against them.

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