( January 11, 2024, 10:11 AM EST) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Product Liability Act (OPLA) “unambiguously bars” a common-law public nuisance claim brought by two Ohio counties that won a $650 million verdict after alleging that national pharmaceutical chains, including Walgreens, CVS and Walmart, helped fuel the nationwide opioid epidemic, a trio of pharmacies argues in a petitioners brief filed in the Ohio Supreme Court, which agreed to answer a certified question from the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....