Opioid plaintiffs fight bid to disqualify U.S. judge before trial

Lawyers for cities and counties suing drug companies over the opioid epidemic on...

) had made on Saturday for U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in Cleveland, Ohio, to step aside from the litigation.

“If these Defendants really thought recusal was necessary, they were required to raise the issue sooner - much sooner,” the plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote. The companies deny wrongdoing. Nearly 2,100 of the lawsuits are before Polster, while others are in state courts. They said those statements, made in court hearings and media interviews, raised the prospect that he had improperly prejudged their liability ahead of the first trial on Oct. 21 involving two Ohio counties seeking $8 billion.

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