Welcome to Critical MassLaw.com’s weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. Everyone seemed to have something to say about Monday’s $572 million opioid verdict in Oklahoma. Investors whose Burford Capital shares dropped after the Muddy Waters report have filed a class action against the litigation funding firm. Who are the law firms involved in the latest CAFA petitionbefore the U.S. Supreme Court?

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Judge Thad Balkman speaks during Oklahoma’s case blaming consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries for the state’s opioid drug crisis, in Norman, Oklahoma, in July. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Opinions Abound Over the $572M Opioid Verdict