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Medical Board action doesn't end probe of execution drug

The Arkansas State Medical Board Thursday dropped its investigation of a drug obtained by the state Correction Department for executions because it found no licensed physician was involved in the state's acquisition of vercuronium bromide.
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Griffen asks probe of Ark. Supreme Court and AG's office conduct

At a press conference today at the Doubletree Hotel just across from the Pulaski County Courthouse, Pulaski County Fifth Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen and his attorneys announced that he has asked the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission to investigate the conduct of the entire Arkansas Supreme Court, and asked the director of the Arkansas Committee on Professional Conduct to investigate the conduct of Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and several others in the AG's office, related to what Griffen and his attorneys claim were forbidden ex parte conversations between the Supreme Court and the AG's office.
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Later today: More on the matter of Judge Wendell Griffen

Later today: A news conference related to Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, removed from a lawsuit over execution drugs and referred to a judicial disciplinary committee for taking part in a death penalty protest on the day he entered an order in the drug case.

After judge files written preliminary injunction order, state appeals

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to force Judge Alice Gray to issue a written order granting a temporary restraining order on the state using vecuronium bromide in its execution protocol.
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Judge Griffen defends granting temporary restraining order in execution drug case, protesting death penalty

On his blog, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen defends granting the drug supplier McKesson's request to issue a temporary restraining order against the Arkansas Department of Correction from using a drug supplied by McKesson in executions. Shortly after granting the temporary restraining order on Friday, Griffen joined an anti-death penalty protest outside the Governor's Mansion.

Drug supplier McKesson refiles lawsuit to keep state from using one execution drug

McKesson, the drug supplier that provided the Arkansas Department of Correction with vecuronium bromide under the auspices that it was for medical use in the department's health center, refiled a lawsuit in state court seeking to prevent ADC from using the drug in executions.
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Lawsuit on execution drug likely to be dropped because of federal injunction

McKesson Medical-Surgical is asking for dismissal of the lawsuit that led to Judge Wendell Griffen's restraining order against use of one of three execution drugs.

UPDATE: State appeals execution drug ruling, asks removal of Griffen as judge

The attorney general's office today asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to set aside Judge Wendell Griffen's temporary order against the use of a paralytic drug in state executions, an order that would have effectively stopped the killings. A federal judge's order later halted all executions for constitutional reasons.
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Griffen blocks use of execution drug, throws schedule into doubt. State objects to his hearing case

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen this afternoon issued a temporary restraining order against the state's use of one of three execution drugs on a complaint by McKesson Medical-Surgical that the state had deceived the company to obtain a paralytic drug for execution, rather than health, uses. This decision calls the scheduled six executions into doubt, but the state plans an emergency appeal.

Arkansas to reap $4.3 million in national drug pricing lawsuit

Arkansas will net more than $4.3 million as its part of a settlement of a national lawsuit that said McKesson Corp. inflated data on prescription drug prices causing Medicaid programs to overpay for them.
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