WVa court ruling slips by today... finds 3 drug distributors not responsible for 'nuisance' over opioid crisis

[butters]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of three major U.S. drug distributors in a landmark lawsuit that accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction.

seems they got off the hook because of the 'public nuisance' filing only previously seen to apply to public property or resources, and doesn't cover the ; the distributors blamed doctors for prescribing the opiates 'along with poor communication and pill quotas set by federal agents'.

He said to extend the law to cover the marketing and sale of opioids “is inconsistent with the history and traditional notions of nuisance.”

so in a state ravaged by opioid addiction, the (no doubt) robust pushing of the drugs at docs to prescribe, plus any little, yanno, financial incentives to do so, isn't covered under public nuisance. I wonder what it IS covered by, then.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...sedgntp&cvid=2f611594a3e943ebfcbbc3da163fd4f2

 

[Dribble]

If you are black...walking down a street...that is considered a nuisance.

 

[butters]

If you are black...walking down a street...that is considered a nuisance.

and if you're jogging, you are clearly a criminal evading the law

 

[rockcasbah]

and if you're jogging, you are clearly a criminal evading the law

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