Cleveland County judge orders parts of opioid maker's internal documents to be made public
A Cleveland County judge on Monday ruled that parts of internal documents from Teva Pharmaceutical filed during Oklahoma's historic opioid trial will be unsealed.
Teva Pharmaceutical is one of the companies that settled with Oklahoma after state Attorney General Mike Hunter's office filed a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers. The unsealed documents are what lawyers are calling a 2005 distribution and supply agreement between Purdue Pharmaceutical and a company owned by Teva.
Those documents could reveal new details about how those two massive drug companies planned to market opioids and what they knew about the drugs in 2005.
Judge Thad Balkman ordered that the 2005 agreement will be made public but that Teva will first be allowed to make certain redactions to them. The documents are expected to be made public this week.