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Judge Balkman makes $107-million “math” error in opioid case…

11:45 AM EDT on October 16, 2019

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.