Supreme Court blocks $6 billion opioid settlement that would have given the Sackler family immunity | CNN Politics - eviltoast
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Purdue Pharma from going forward with bankruptcy proceedings, which the Biden administration has called an “unprecedented” arrangement that would ultimately offer the Sackler family broad protection from opioid-related civil claims.

Ok, still a ways to go before celebration, but we’re trending in the right direction. So, I’m choosing optimism.

    • Zorque@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      There’s still time, the SC blocked it so they could consider the case, not because they actually have a problem with it.

    • Greyghoster@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Given the amount of time that the justices spend holidaying with billionaires what’s the bet that they side with their mates?

  • BuckFigotstheThird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure it something sinister…like they blocked it to make way for a settlement for much, much less money, and also … immunity.

  • Wirrvogel@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Just for a comparison:

    Fatal opioid overdoses and opioid use disorder cost the United States $1.02 trillion in 2017. The most complete accounting to date of America’s opioid crisis was released by CDC in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Costs for spending on health care, opioid use disorder treatment, criminal justice, and lost work productivity, as well as estimates of cost for lost quality of life and lives lost were computed in this study.

    And they have the audacity to say how much these $6 billion will help and how dare to delay that help. That’s less than a drop in the ocean.