[Wonder Warthog]

Federal judge or state judge??

[Erik Latranyi]

So, a pharmaceutical company that is heavily regulated by the gov’t gets sued by the gov’t for distributing a drug that the gov’t approved.

The advertising of that drug needed to be approved by the gov’t as well.

The literature given to doctors was approved by the gov’t.

Only in the most corrupt system can the gov’t control every aspect of your business and then sue you for negligence.

[Elsie]

Back in the day, we drank booze to get rid of pain.

[liberalh8ter]

Would this be a precedence case for the Democrat dream litigation of suing gun manufacturers?

[Elsie]

Moreover, simple math tells you that 1,734 jobs funded with that fine would break out to $268,166.09 per job for one year.

Maybe the wages are only around $50K a year.

Then it would last for around 5 years.

[17th Miss Regt]

Quite a while back a judge in St. Louis ruled that local schools were not funded to the level he thought was appropriate. He ordered property taxes to be raised to pay for the schools. As I recall, that judgement was not overturned and the taxes were raised. This was a very bad precedent.

[BobL]

“While it’s about Oklahoma, it’s matters everywhere because stupid progressive ideas are never contained to one area. They spread like COVID.”

Actually COVID doesn’t spread that easily, at least compared to other viruses.

[BobL]

““On appeal is a trial judge’s order that a pharmaceutical company must pay $465 million to create 36 new government programs to address the opioid epidemic, adding an estimated 1,734 new state workers,” he writes.”

Sorry Ernest, that boat left the shore when Florida sued tobacco companies. It should have been stopped then.