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New state AG opioid lawsuits show diverging strategies, outside counsel pay scales

By Daniel Fisher | Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 7:45am

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The latest wave of state lawsuits over the opioid crisis illustrates sharp differences emerging in how governments litigate these cases, both in whom they choose to sue and whether private lawyers stand to get a piece of the action.
D.C. Circuit denies state AGs' petition to postpone Clean Power Plan deadlines

By Jessica Karmasek | Monday, Sep 14, 2015 @ 1:26pm

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has shot down a petition, filed by a coalition of 15 state attorneys general, asking it to issue an emergency stay to postpone deadlines imposed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. The three-judge panel of the U.S.