Sackler family granted immunity from civil lawsuits.

I've read Empire of Pain (very good, about the Sackler family). And what I got out of it was that they were pretty much mostly people who just wanted to be rich and stay rich. I think that a lot of people would do the same. My big issue is with the horrible regulation. They were ALLOWED to get away with it - repeatedly. Governments need to stop assuming that people can be true to principles when offered the chance of huge wealth as well as stop being so corrupt - people who let the Sacklers get away with it took money and jobs from them. You just simply can't depend on the 'goodness' of humans volunteering to be good. You have to have proper and well policed safety checks against it.

This is America. Of course they are immune.

This is terrible news.

The entire Sackler family and their descendants should be run out of America with flaming pitchforks and never allowed to return. The damage they've knowingly done is incalculable and ongoing.

For people interested I highly recommend the series "Dopesick" on Netflix. Michael Keaton as a small town Virginia doctor in a community overtaken by Oxycontin abuse is brilliant. Also stars DL Fave Mare Winningham.

Cunts should be left penniless

Monsters.

No, OP, they were not granted immunity.

If only someone accidentally placed powerful opioids in one of the family’s future prescriptions.

Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito, Barrett, and Jackson struck down the proposed settlement under which the Sacklers would get lifetime immunity. Kavanaugh, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Roberts disagreed.

Unusual bedfellows because the case is so complex, it would have been a shitty decision regardless. 100k people who could have benefited from that settlement got screwed, but I still think that's preferable to those demons getting lifetime immunity.

The money the victims' families would have gotten was anywhere between $3,800 and $43,000 over 10 years, while this cunt criminal family would have gotten off scot-free. And the Sacklers would have gotten full immunity.

Now they'll be sued out of their fucking minds by hundreds of thousands.

Good.

What R7 said. The deal which granted immunity was overturned.

Check the date on the thread. This is old news.

I know this is an old thread, R12. But "new" news has replaced OP's original post, so it's worth rehashing.

June 27, 2024

[quote]The Supreme Court said on Thursday that members of the Sackler family cannot be shielded from liability for civil claims related to the opioid epidemic, jeopardizing a bankruptcy plan that would have offered such protection in exchange for channeling billions of dollars toward addressing the crisis.

[quote]In a 5-to-4 decision, the justices found that the deal, carefully negotiated over years with states, tribes, local governments and individuals, had broken a basic tenet of bankruptcy law by shielding members of the Sackler family from lawsuits without the consent of those who might sue.

I didn't read the decision that way. The court ruled that Sackler could not be protected from future lawsuits . Sackler had agreed to the settlement becuase it wasstipulated that they would be pretectedfrom future, individual suits. Court said no, you won't.