West Virginia’s Supreme Court on Monday declined to answer a federal court’s question in an appeal in a landmark lawsuit over whether the distribution of opioids can cause a public ...

Had the state justices ruled that opioids distribution can cause a public nuisance, the case would have returned to the 4th Circuit anyway. Had the West Virginia court found that opioids can’t cause a ...

A majority of West Virginia Supreme Court justices have declined to wade into a legal question about whether the influx of addictive opioid medications into West Virginia constitutes a nuisance to the ...