#SCOTUS:The opioid decision satisfies no one but the Sacklers. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 13 July 2024
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#SCOTUS:The opioid decision satisfies no one but the Sacklers. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.hoover.org/research/upending-sackler-bankruptcy
1922 SCOTUS
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| 0:29.0 | CBS I on the world,'m John Bachelor Harrington versus Purdue Pharma |
| 0:35.9 | US Supreme Court decision five to four rejecting a settlement. I learned from |
| 0:41.1 | Professor Richard Epstein senior fellow for the Hoover Institution writing and defining ideas. |
| 0:46.0 | Richard teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago. |
| 0:49.0 | Richard, a very good evening to you, this is the opioid settlement having to do with the |
| 0:54.5 | conscious exploitation of America five to four though suggests that the |
| 1:02.3 | Supreme Court was not settled on how to regard this |
| 1:05.8 | settlement and that the matter might be coming back. What is it that the majority saw that the four votes declining did not see? |
| 1:17.0 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:18.0 | Good. Oh, this is a very difficult and complicated matter. I think the first thing you have to do is to understand the enormity of the problem and then to try to figure out what its source is. |
| 1:29.0 | And essentially, by anybody's count, hundreds of thousands of people |
| 1:33.4 | had either died or been made by the excessive use |
| 1:36.1 | of illegal opioids since 1999 to the present, |
| 1:40.2 | roughly 25 years. |
| 1:42.1 | Whenever you get something which is this enormous, |
| 1:44.5 | are always looking for a wrongdo. |
| 1:47.0 | And in this particular case, the wrongdoer has to be institutional. |
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