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Recent News About Walmart

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  Walmart hopes old law will block feds' suit over opioid 'unwritten expectations’

  By Daniel Fisher | Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020 @ 7:54am

  SHERMAN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Walmart is betting on an 86-year-old law that companies most commonly use to fend off lawsuits over insurance coverage or trademarks to block an expected government suit over how its pharmacists filled opioid prescriptions.

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  Sixth Circuit, for now, puts stop to order forcing release of patient records in massive opioid litigation

  By Daniel Fisher | Thursday, Feb 13, 2020 @ 10:18am

  CINCINNATI (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has temporarily halted a federal judge’s order requiring the largest U.S. pharmacy chains to turn over more than a decade’s worth of nationwide prescription records, although the court refused to halt production of prescriptions for the state of Ohio.

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