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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by papercrane on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:10PM (#28396058)
Much of the controversy is that this immunity deal grants them immunity from parties not involved in this lawsuit.

So, its not just "both sides compromise", there are parties affected by this that are giving up something without getting anything in return.

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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by canttestthis on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:14PM (#28396102)
What is the legal mechanism that allows this? If I’m not a party to the agreement that says they won’t be sued in the future, how can the agreement enforce that I won’t sue them? Or is it the judges that are saying they won’t hear the case?
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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by samizdis on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:49PM (#28396524)
There's a decent description of so-called third-party releases, consensual and non-consensual, in an article from May this year; the site is that of a law firm:

https://www.hirschlerlaw.com/newsroom-publications-chapter-1...

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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by papercrane on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:22PM (#28396214)
It's called a "non-consensual third-party release". They're not very common and pretty controversial.
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