Last July, a federal judge in West Virginia heard closing arguments in the first lawsuit to go to trial over the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic. With an avalanche of documents from the three-month trial, Judge David Faber didn’t indicate when he would make a ruling on the multibillion-dollar lawsuit filed by Cabell County and the city of Huntington against three major drug distributors, and his decision wasn’t expected right away. There’s still no verdict and there’s been no indication when there might be one. The AP pointed out, most other similar trials involving the opioid epidemic have been before juries, not handled by judges alone.