{"id":2537,"date":"2018-12-27T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T00:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/3-maine-opioid-lawsuits-moved-to-federal-court\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:29:16","slug":"3-maine-opioid-lawsuits-moved-to-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/3-maine-opioid-lawsuits-moved-to-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Maine Opioid Lawsuits Moved to Federal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland, Bangor and Lewiston lawsuits, along with many others, will now be influenced by three \u201cbellwether cases\u201d set to be tried in the Northern District of Ohio next year, said <a href=\"\/napoli-attorney\/paul-napoli\/\">Paul Napoli<\/a>, a New York-based lawyer for the Maine cities, as well as many others.<\/p>\n<p>Settlements in those cases, brought by the city of Cleveland and two Ohio counties, could mean the same thing for the Maine cases, which are likely to otherwise be tried in federal court here, Napoli said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a national crisis and Maine is particularly hard hit,\u201d said the lawyer, who is also represents Ohio\u2019s Cuyahoga County, a bellwether plaintiff. \u201cAnything the judge can do to speed up the process will certainly benefit the people of Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland, Bangor and Lewiston lawsuits, along with many others, will now be influenced by three \u201cbellwether cases\u201d set to be tried in the Northern District of Ohio next year,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":345,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[59,75,98,151,253,254],"whitepaper-source":[93],"class_list":["post-2537","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-paul-napoli","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-ohio-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper_category-maine-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper_category-opioid-crisis","whitepaper_category-opioid-epidemic","whitepaper-source-bangor-daily-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2537","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\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}