Attorney General Aaron Ford to make announcement on opioid lawsuit — WATCH LIVE

CARSON CITY — Attorney General Aaron Ford has scheduled a 1 p.m. property league Tuesday for “an important announcement related to the state’s opioid litigation.”

His bureau did not disclose further details up of time.

Last year, Ford announced a $45 cardinal colony against 1 institution progressive successful the opioid litigation. The suit is being handled connected a contingency interest ground for the authorities by Eglet Prince, the instrumentality steadfast wherever Ford worked arsenic a backstage attorney earlier being elected lawyer wide successful 2018. Ford, however, recused himself from the enactment process.

Ford successful August announced that Nevada would opt out of a $26 cardinal multi-state colony with drugmakers and distributors and prosecute its ain colony connected behalf of the authorities and 28 section governments.

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