6th Circuit Won’t Compel Opioid MDL Judge To Certify Questions To Ga. High Court

( January 8, 2025, 1:15 PM EST) -- CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied Publix Super Markets Inc.’s petition for a writ of mandamus to order a series of questions certified to the Georgia Supreme Court for it to determine how the state’s public nuisance laws apply in a nationwide opioid XE "opioid"  multidistrict litigation, finding “that the extraordinary remedy of mandamus” is not warranted....