Seven months after the Supreme Court struck down a deal that would have resolved thousands of opioid cases against Purdue Pharma, the company’s owners, members of the Sackler family, have increased their cash offer to settle the litigation — but with a novel catch.
Under the framework for a new deal, the Sacklers would not receive immunity from future opioid lawsuits, a condition that they had long insisted upon but that the court ruled was impermissible.
Instead, they would pay up to $6.5 billion — $500 million more than the previous agreement — but with a new condition: Claimants, including states, municipalities and individuals, would have to set aside as much as $800 million in an account akin to a legal-defense fund for the billionaires to fight such cases, according to people familiar with the negotiations
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Well if we’re not gonna let them have immunity from future lawsuits, the least we can do is pay to defend them from the lawsuits we bring.
/S if it wasn’t fuckin obvious.
Sacklers should get the firing squad.
Give them the same war chest drug traffickers are given.
Why are they negotiating with terrorists? Jail their asses
Tarred, feathered, shame walked for 20 miles without shoes, then drawn and quartered.