CVS, Walmart, Walgreens Notch Ohio Win Over Opioid Judgment (3)

CVS Pharmacy Inc., Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., and Walmart Inc. notched a major win Tuesday with a Ohio Supreme Court ruling that likely upends a $650 million judgment against them.

Ohio’s product liability law prohibits claims like the ones for which the three pharmacy megachains were found liable, as well as the type of judgment they face, the justices ruled 5-2.

Two counties sought “equitable relief” for common law public-nuisance claims—which a federal judge ordered and sculpted to “abate” the problems prescription painkillers caused—and argued the state law allowed for such a judgment. The law only barred ...