{"id":5073,"date":"2025-04-04T05:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/opioid-judge-faces-recusal-request-over-handling-of-alleged-ex-parte-communications\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T05:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:13:21","slug":"opioid-judge-faces-recusal-request-over-handling-of-alleged-ex-parte-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/opioid-judge-faces-recusal-request-over-handling-of-alleged-ex-parte-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Opioid Judge Faces Recusal Request Over Handling of Alleged Ex Parte Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The federal judge overseeing thousands of opioid lawsuits faces a motion to recuse himself following accusations of <i>ex parte<\/i> communications he allegedly had with a lead plaintiffs\u2019 attorney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, of the Northern District of Ohio, should recuse himself because of his potential \u201cimpartiality\u201d in handling accusations about <i>ex parte<\/i> communications with Peter Weinberger, of Cleveland\u2019s Spangenberg Shibley &amp; Liber, liaison counsel in the opioid multidistrict litigation, according to a motion filed Wednesday by lawyers for two pharmacy benefit managers that are defendants in opioid lawsuits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal judge overseeing thousands of opioid lawsuits faces a motion to recuse himself following accusations of ex parte communications he allegedly had with a lead plaintiffs\u2019 attorney. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[460,5364,458,4748,423,2200,3886,5363,2207],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-alleged","tag-communications","tag-faces","tag-handling","tag-judge","tag-opioid","tag-parte","tag-recusal","tag-request"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}