Nix Patterson Helps Oklahoma Secure Four New Opioid Settlements, bringing State’s Total Settlement Value to Nearly $1 Billion
On January 4, 2023, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office announced four new settlements in its
On January 4, 2023, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office announced four new settlements in its
On December 5, 2022, Nix Patterson LLP filed a lawsuit in New York against former
Nix Patterson partner Neil Smith worked with our good friend and co-counsel Cameron Spradling, representing school children who were victims of unwanted touching by a school volunteer. We established that the school violated state law by failing to properly report
When Jesus Martinez was trapped and killed by a mortar mixer on his first day working as a brick layer’s helper, Nix Patterson stepped in to help his widow, Brenda Valdez-Martinez, and his children, Aaron, Jonathon, and Evelyn Martinez. The
Nix Patterson, LLP obtains $35 million verdict for sex abuse survivor. Nix Patterson argued to a jury in Thomson Falls, Montana that the Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide organization values secrecy and its reputation over the safety of children. Nix Patterson clients
As previously reported, NP and co-counsel, Whitten Burrage, represent the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter in litigation against several manufacturers of opioid pain killers in a lawsuit filed in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, entitled State of Oklahoma
On August 2, 2018, NP and co-counsel Whitten Burrage filed lawsuits on behalf of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations against several large pharmaceutical companies that manufacture highly addictive and often deadly opioid painkillers—including Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen, and
Nix, Patterson, LLP represents a whistleblower who brought suit on behalf of the United States and the State of Oklahoma against a group of physicians and hospitals in Oklahoma. The whistleblower (or “Relator”) filed suit under the False Claims Act
NP client Pebbles Rodriguez appeared on the Today Show to discuss how she escaped from a religious cult. NP partner Neil Smith represented Ms. Rodriguez in bringing the church to justice.
NP clients Amy Eddy and Pebbles Rodriguez appeared on the cover of People Magazine this week. The article describes their lives as child brides in a religious cult and previews a new documentary about how they escaped and successfully sued
NP represented a class of royalty owners in this putative class action against XTO Energy Inc. for the alleged underpayment of gas royalties on gas and its constituents produced from wells in Oklahoma where XTO, including its predecessors or affiliates,
On April 5, 2018, Judge James Manley of Sanders County, Montana ordered the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organization to produce documents and testimony related to internal reports and investigations into the childhood sexual abuse of NP’s two clients. In this case,
NP, with Co-Class Counsel Ryan Whaley, represented a class of royalty and overriding royalty owners in this putative class action against XTO Energy Inc. for the alleged failure to pay statutory interest on royalty payments made outside the time periods
On February 23, 2018, Investigative Reporter Mike DeForest of News 6 in Orlando, WKMG Click Orlando, ran a story on the SeaWorld Securities Litigation, titled “Former SeaWorld CEO refuses to answer questions in shareholder lawsuit – Jim Atchison invokes Fifth
On Thursday January 11, 2018, Cleveland County Oklahoma Judge Thad Balkman ordered that the State of Oklahoma’s trial against several major manufacturers of addictive opioid drugs will begin on May 28, 2019. The State is represented by the Oklahoma Attorney
On January 11, 2018, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew G. Schopler of the Southern District of California granted the Second Motion to Compel Discovery that NP and its Co-Class Counsel filed on behalf of the certified Class of investors in the
On January 5, 2018, the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, Division 4, issued a 31-page published decision affirming the trial court’s 2015 judgment in this declaratory judgment action, which asked the court to declare the rights of royalty owners and
Austin Tighe spoke at the Texas Trial Lawyers Annual Convention in San Antonio on class actions. His presentation focused on how class actions, despite what the Chamber of Commerce and Texans for Lawsuit Reform would have you belief, are alive
As previously reported, NP and co-counsel, Whitten Burrage, represent the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter in litigation against several manufacturers of opioid-based pain killers in a lawsuit filed in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, entitled State of Oklahoma v.
Nix, Patterson assisted in the drafting and filing of a first-ever Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) amicus brief. The brief is filed in support of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and it’s assertion that sovereign immunity bars the PTAB
On November 29, 2017, Judge Michael M. Anello of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted Lead Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, appointed the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System (“APERS”) and Pensionskassen For Børne-Og Ungdomspædagoger (“PBU”),
As previously reported, NP and co-counsel, Whitten Burrage, represent the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter in litigation against several manufacturers of opioid-based painkillers in a lawsuit filed in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, entitled State of Oklahoma v. Purdue
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