Over the past half-century, product-related public health crises have claimed millions of
American lives. Two of these crises have been especially prominent-tobacco and opioids. In …

An ongoing debate among legal scholars and public health advocates is the role of litigation
in shaping public policy. For the most part, the debate has been waged at a conceptual …

The devastating impact of the national opioid epidemic has given rise to hundreds of
lawsuits. This article details the extremely broad range of legal claims, compares the opioid …

In this Note, the author demonstrates that the popular appeal of these suits conceals legal
theories of recovery that probably could not survive courtroom scrutiny. The author argues …

Many tobacco control advocates, believing that legislators and regulators have failed to
enact and implement sufficiently stringent tobacco control laws, have supported litigation as …

The War on Drugs. What began as a battle waged on morals has created multiple public
health crises, and no recent phenomenon illustrates this in more macabre detail than …

Public nuisance has lived many lives. A centuries-old doctrine defined as an unreasonable
interference with a right common to the public, it is currently the backbone of thousands of …

My experience and reflections concerning tobacco litigation stem from representing the
American Cancer Society in November of 1998,'when the State of Oregon asked Judge …

For forty years, beginning in the early 1950s, smokers suffering from lung cancer sued
tobacco companies for the harm they suffered with hardly a notice in the world of public …

The proliferation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry has had profound implications for
American health policy, tort law, civil law, and welfare and social policy. Since the …