"There is quite literally nothing I could anticipate from this witness that could authenticate this material," Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson told the attorney for California before denying her attempt to lay a foundation for a witness' ability to authenticate marketing material allegedly from companies where he never worked.

An attorney for the state said she was frustrated Tuesday in a $50 billion opioid trial after lawyers representing four drug companies accused of deceptive marketing effectively blocked her from presenting marketing documents she said they knew were authentic.

Defense attorneys' constant stream of successful objections have all but stifled the state's ability to admit documents into evidence and question key expert witnesses in the ...

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May 5, 2021

Defense stymies expert testimony and materials in opioid trial

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