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Re:Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling by staticautomatic on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:09PM (#20804632)
Usually if a defendant loses but the damage award is a tenth or less of the ask, the defendant considers it something of a win. A couple times I've seen defendants who were sued for, say, $60M, get hit for $6M, and call it a good outcome. The calculus might be different at this scale, but probably not by much. The significance of this verdict has more to do with it being a bellwether trial with an encouraging outcome for the plaintiffs. Then again, it was a bench trial, where you usually expect verdicts to be smaller than with juries.

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