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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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