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The plaintiffs bar never met a business it wouldn’t sue, and now the lawyers are using government authority to pursue private interests. In their latest business model, trial lawyers are hired by state attorneys general to help prosecute public lawsuits then use it to the advantage of their private lawsuits. Kudos to one company for pushing back. In December pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx filed a motion in federal court in Ohio to disqualify Motley Rice, a South Carolina plaintiffs firm suing the company in multidistrict opioid litigation. Motley has been retained by state attorneys general and city prosecutors in Washington, D.C., Hawaii and Chicago to handle the government’s litigation, but it continues to represent private clients in related litigation.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones &...

June 15th should have been one of the best days of Mohammed Sanogo’s life. An honors student with a perfect G.P.A., he had just walked across the stage at his high-school graduation, in Delaware, and was looking forward to attending the University of Maryland Honors College to study aerospace engineering. Before he left the parking lot at the University of Delaware, where the ceremony was held, Sanogo, a Muslim, stopped to pray with a few friends. For reasons that are in dispute, a few minutes later, as Sanogo was driving away, campus police stopped his vehicle, demanded that he get out of the car, and, after he did, picked him up and threw him to the ground. Video shot by students at the scene shows officers kneeling on his back to cuff him, as Sanogo struggles to get out of their grip a...

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