{"id":2475,"date":"2018-05-24T19:13:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T23:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/city-of-caribou-maine-joins-opioid-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:27:07","slug":"city-of-caribou-maine-joins-opioid-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/city-of-caribou-maine-joins-opioid-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Caribou, Maine Joins Opioid Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caribou city councilors unanimously voted on May 14 to join a nationwide lawsuit against companies responsible for creating and distributing opiates such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, oxymorphone, and methadone.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the council\u2019s motion involves authorizing two law firms, <a href=\"\/\">Napoli Shkolnik, PLLC of New York<\/a>, and Trafton, Matzen, Belleau &amp; Frenette, LLP of<br \/>\nAuburn to seek legal action on behalf of the city in regards to costs incurred as a result of the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli Shkolnik specializes in numerous areas, including <a href=\"\/office-of-governmental-affairs-opioid-lawyers\/\">opioids<\/a>, <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/medical-malpractice\/\">medical malpractice<\/a>, <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/aviation-accidents\/\">aviation accidents<\/a>, <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/workers-compensation\/\">workers compensation<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/\">personal injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribou city councilors unanimously voted on May 14 to join a nationwide lawsuit against companies responsible for creating and distributing opiates such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, oxymorphone, and methadone. Specifically, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":407,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[75],"whitepaper-source":[236],"class_list":["post-2475","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper-source-the-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}