Prescription drug distributors are asking the West Virginia Supreme Court to stop a lawsuit, which alleges that the distributors negligently shipped excessive numbers of pain pills to the state and thereby fueled the state's drug abuse epidemic. Read more at the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
The office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan asserted in a letter to the United States Supreme Court that Governor Bruce Rauner has no right to represent the state before the Court. At issue is an amicus brief that Rauner's office submitted in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case about collective bargaining. The governor's general counsel says the brief was speaking only on behalf of the governor's office, not the entire state. Read more at ABA Journal.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper plans to ask the Colorado Supreme Court if the state's attorney general, Cynthia Coffman, acted without authority in joining the state to a challenge of the federal government's "Clean Power Plan" environmental regulations. The governor claims that the state AG can only act with his approval. Read more at Denver Business Journal.
