{"id":122883,"date":"2025-06-13T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=122883"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T20:45:02","slug":"maryland-state-judge-overrules-grossly-excessive-266m-jury-verdict-in-opioid-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/13\/maryland-state-judge-overrules-grossly-excessive-266m-jury-verdict-in-opioid-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Judge Overrules ‘Grossly Excessive’ $266M Jury Verdict in Opioid Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

“[T]he jury’s verdict was grossly excessive and cannot be supported by the evidence introduced at trial,” Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill of the Baltimore City Circuit Court wrote in his memorandum opinion overruling a jury’s $266 million damages award in an opioid public nuisance trial.<\/p>\n

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“[T]he jury’s verdict was grossly excessive and cannot be supported by the evidence introduced at trial,” Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill of the Baltimore City Circuit Court wrote in his memorandum opinion overruling a jury’s $266 million damages award in an opioid public nuisance trial.<\/p>\n

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“[T]he jury’s verdict was grossly excessive and cannot be supported by the evidence introduced at trial,” Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill of the Baltimore City Circuit Court wrote in his memorandum opinion overruling a jury’s $266 million damages award in an opioid public nuisance trial. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “[T]he jury’s verdict was grossly excessive and cannot be supported by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-6qQhi3.jpeg?fit=768%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122895,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122883\/revisions\/122895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}