Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

Re:Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement by piva00 on Thursday June 27, 2024 @10:51AM (#40811134)

US$ 6bi to be disbursed across hundreds of local governments to use for settlements over millions of individuals is nothing compared to the damage the Sacklers inflicted. On top of that having a sweet deal to never see any future liability case is an egregious misjustice.

The minimum would be for them to be arrested, if we pushed drugs to someone who eventually dies from it we wouldn't be getting just a fine. At the scale they did it's simply inconceivable to me that paying a fine which is less than their profit is anywhere close to justice.

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Re:Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday June 27, 2024 @11:09AM (#40811381)

It really depends on what you mean by "pushed drugs". If you or I recommended that someone should get an oxycodone prescription from their doctor, and they eventually died after getting that prescription, I don't think we'd get arrested or fined. (And the Sacklers were never getting criminal immunity in the first place.)

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Re:Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement by relaxing on Thursday June 27, 2024 @04:32PM (#40814772)

That doesn’t describe what happened.

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