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Attorney General Mark Brnovich Announces Finalized Consent Judgments in $26 Billion Opioid Investigation

PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced his office (AGO) has secured consent judgments finalizing two historic multistate settlements totaling $26 billion, with four pharmaceutical companies for their roles in the opioid crisis. The agreements include Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen—the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors—and Johnson & Johnson, which manufactured and marketed opioids.

General Brnovich Urges Supreme Court to Protect Consumers in Class Action Settlements

PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, leading a coalition of 20 state attorneys general, filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to grant certiorari in Lowery v. Joffe.  The case stems from the settlement of a 2010 class-action lawsuit where plaintiffs alleged that Google’s Street View cars collected millions of consumers’ private data (emails, passwords, usernames, etc.) on their WiFi networks without consumers’ knowledge.