Aaron Polster

Sep 16, 2019

Judge vowed to tackle opioid crisis; drug companies say that’s sign of bias

For the better part of two years, U.S. District Court Judge Dan Aaron Polster has urged some of the nation’s most combative lawyers to craft a settlement that would funnel billions of dollars from drug companies to cities and counties ravaged by the opioid epidemic. The judge, who has wrestled with what legal experts describe […]

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