An Oklahoma judge was dead wrong Aug. 26 in ordering Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million to help fight the opioid crisis, and West Virginia attorney general Patrick Morrisey was equally wrong Aug. 23 to file lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceuticals.

In Oklahoma, Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman ruled that Johnson & Johnson somehow used deceptive and manipulative marketing practices to convince doctors to overprescribe addictive pain-killing medication. In West Virginia, Morrisey is making a similar claim.

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