Then, this week, a jury of regular people said otherwise, concluding the obvious: that CVS Health, Walmart and Walgreens, substantially contributed to the crisis of opioid overdoses and deaths in two Ohio counties.
All our institutions - government, medical, pharmaceutical, regulatory, judicial - failed to do their jobs, and hundreds of thousands have died.Įven this month, two federal judges ruled that public nuisance laws didn’t protect citizens from big corporations that turned a blind eye to the mountains of opioids that were going out their doors, headed to small, rural communities. As institutions including legislatures, executives and criminal justice systems have abrogated their duties, civil law is filling the void.Ĭonsider how for more than 20 years now, the ball of public safety has been dropped at every conceivable level in the ongoing opioid crisis. But if he begins to turn his notoriety into cash, it is conceivable that much of it could go to the families of those he killed.īut these two men are just small examples of a phenomenon in which civil lawsuits become a stand-in for government action.
With O.J., this worked as planned, as financial stresses got him caught up in other crimes that did indeed land him in jail.Īt first blush, it would not seem that Kyle has O.J.’s riches. if he is a student of history dating as far back as Ollie North, he knows that on the right fringe, crime pays very well.Īnother similarity is that, following the verdict, the victims’ families filed civil suits against the defendant. In this respect, Rittenhouse is likely to be more successful than O.J. Simpson went on to try to find the “real killer,” while Kyle Rittenhouse says he wants to crusade to the right of self defense. Pete Waters: Critical behavior theory might work More Tim: What is virtual reality, really, but one big lie? Last week: Ecology doing to produce stickers what finger nails can't
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