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Media engagements by James Tierney on news involving state attorneys general.
“If the Supreme Court chooses to return abortion laws to the states, says former Maine Attorney General James Tierney, it ‘just shows that the Supreme Court really doesn’t have a clue how states work. And so we are going to have a lot of decision makers making different kinds of decisions.’”
Michael Smerconish, “If Roe is overturned, will law enforcement honor the outcome?,” Smerconish, CNN, June 18, 2022.
CGTN's Elaine Reyes speaks with James Tierney, Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School and Former Attorney General of Maine, about what we've learned about the chaos at the U.S. Capitol in the week since it happened.
“James Tierney on U.S. Capitol chaos, one week later,” CGTN, January 14, 2021.
“A number of Attorneys General began investigating the marketing practices of the opioid industry using a tobacco model. Now the judge could do several things. He’s got to figure out a way to sort through these law suits and to settle them in a way that money goes to public health and doesn’t just waste it the way they did much of the tobacco dollars. We should use it to address the huge issue at the moment which is the inability of addicts, 2.2 million addicts, to get appropriate care.”
Cassandra Giraldo, Here’s why Big Pharma won’t pay for opioid deaths like Big Tobacco pays for cancer, Vice News, Apr 23, 2018.
For the full interview, "Are opioids the new Big Tobacco?," see the April 16, 2018 episode of Vice News Tonight, available on HBO.
As the states begin their investigation into the Volkswagen emissions scandal, James Tierney tells the PBS News Hour that a large-scale civil settlement is likely, but only after any and all criminal investigation and cases have been resolved.
On the long-running nightly PBS interview program Charlie Rose, a conversation about the process of building consensus among state attorneys general in the fight against tobacco companies. Full transcript available.
