‘A Settlement That is a Sellout’: Philadelphia Files Suit Over National Opioid Deal, Says it Wouldn’t Get Enough of $26B Pot
“In the first big challenge to the proposed $26 billion national opioid settlement, the Philadelphia district attorney on Thursday sued Pennsylvania’s attorney general over the deal, saying the city stands to get only a pittance to cope with an epidemic that is killing more than 1,000 people a year,” reports Michael Rubinkam in Morning Call.
“With Philadelphia pursuing its own, potentially more lucrative litigation against the opioid industry, District Attorney Larry Krasner denounced the national agreement and asked a state court to declare that Attorney General Josh Shapiro has no authority to bind the city to it.”
