{"id":2565,"date":"2019-04-29T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/federal-judge-clears-path-for-testimony-at-opioid-trial\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:30:07","slug":"federal-judge-clears-path-for-testimony-at-opioid-trial","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/papiers-blanc\/federal-judge-clears-path-for-testimony-at-opioid-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Un juge f\u00e9d\u00e9ral ouvre la voie aux t\u00e9moignages lors d&#039;un proc\u00e8s sur les opio\u00efdes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster clears the way for testimony at a bellwether trial by Russell Portenoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The court concludes Dr. Portenoy&#8217;s testimony is too important to the [bellwether] trial, and that exclusion of his testimony is too extreme a sanction under these circumstances,&#8221; Judge Polster wrote in rejecting sanctions that a special master approved earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are glad Judge Polster understood the need for the public to hear Dr. Portenoy&#8217;s admissions that what Purdue and he did was wrong and it led to this epidemic,&#8221; Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, a top plaintiffs&#8217; lawyer in the MDL, told Law360.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La d\u00e9cision du juge de district am\u00e9ricain Dan Aaron Polster ouvre la voie \u00e0 un t\u00e9moignage lors d&#039;un proc\u00e8s phare de Russell Portenoy. \u00ab Le tribunal conclut que le t\u00e9moignage du Dr Portenoy est trop important\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":315,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[253,254,75,98],"whitepaper-source":[63],"class_list":["post-2565","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-opioid-crisis","whitepaper_category-opioid-epidemic","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-ohio-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper-source-law360"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}