Remember when Oklahoma kinda-sorta-maybe-but-not-really won their lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson back in August? I argued that the penalty the state arrived at was a slap on the wrist compared to the damage that the drug corporation had done. If you read through the comments, however, some people made it seem like I was ungrateful and the $572 million to be awarded to Oklahoma was enough money to magically make up for everything.
It turns out that I was right about the state screwing up the judgement, but for the wrong reason.
Judge Thad Balkman – the guy that may have smoked too much chronic with Snoop at his high school reunion– made a $100-million math "error" when determining damages in the case
From Tulsa World:
NORMAN — A judge admitted Tuesday to making a $107 million math error in his verdict in the state's opioid case.
"That will be the last time I use that calculator," Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman said.