Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settlement

Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by id5j1ynz on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:05PM (#28396700)

Are you advocating for some form of extrajudicial punishment here?

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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by tptacek on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:09PM (#28396753)

Yes.

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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by wolverine876 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:44PM (#28397121)

Are you speaking for yourself or interpreting the GGP?

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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by tptacek on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:55PM (#28397249)

No interpretation is necessary. They said it overtly.

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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by fwsgonzo on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:12PM (#28396773)

I don't even live in the US, so not even skin in the game. I thought it was worth mentioning that if there was a will, there would be a way. There is just isn't any will.

To elaborate, I don't think even the prosecutors went for the win here. I think they went for some kind of certainty that they could live with. And this is the result.

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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by tptacek on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:32PM (#28396976)

This was a civil case. What prosecutors are you talking about?

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Re:Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settle... by fwsgonzo on Thursday September 02, 2021 @05:03PM (#28397337)

Thanks. I read the article now as I should have done in the beginning. It is overall very disappointing. No justice was done here.

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