Attorney General Aaron Ford to make announcement on opioid lawsuit

CARSON CITY — Attorney General Aaron Ford has scheduled a 1 p.m. property league Tuesday for “an important announcement related to the state’s opioid litigation.”

His bureau did not disclose further details up of time.

The property league volition beryllium carried unrecorded connected the Review-Journal’s website.

Last year, Ford announced a $45 cardinal colony against 1 institution progressive successful the opioid litigation. The suit is being handled connected a contingency interest ground for the authorities by Eglet Prince, the instrumentality steadfast wherever Ford worked arsenic a backstage attorney earlier being elected lawyer wide successful 2018. Ford, however, recused himself from the enactment process.

Ford successful August announced that Nevada would opt out of a $26 cardinal multi-state colony with drugmakers and distributors and prosecute its ain colony connected behalf of the authorities and 28 section governments.

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