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“This is a landmark.” The court decision that could shape the future of the opioid crisis.
Lenny Bernstein on what a court ruling in Oklahoma could mean for the opioid epidemic. Carol D. Leonnig reports on Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers speaking out in court. And transportation reporter Luz Lazo explains why there may be Braille on your e-scooter.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay more than half a billion in Oklahoma opioid case
Health and medicine reporter Lenny Bernstein was in the Oklahoma courtroom yesterday when a judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson will have to pay $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis.
“Anybody who opens their eyes or reads the newspaper or watches television knows that we had a prescription opioid epidemic in this country for many years, and it still continues today,” Bernstein says. “The question is, who do we blame?”
With more than 40 states lined up to pursue similar claims against the pharmaceutical industry, Bernstein says the ruling here could influence both sides’ strategies going forward.
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- Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572 million for its role in Oklahoma’s opioid crisis
- Follow The Post’s investigation of the opioid epidemic
Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers get their day in court
“There are a lot of very angry and frustrated women who feel that they were victimized once and they never got their real day in court to face the man that they accuse of stealing their childhood from them,” reporter Carol D. Leonnig says.
One by one, Epstein accusers stood at the front of a federal courtroom, fighting back tears as they described how Jeffrey Epstein coerced and abused them, and — to the end — avoided their efforts to bring him to justice.
The women say they would have preferred a trial. But after Epstein’s apparent suicide in federal custody this month, they got only this: a hearing at which a judge weighed the prosecutors’ request to drop the new sex trafficking charges brought against the registered sex offender.
More on this topic:
- ‘He is a coward’: Women who say Jeffrey Epstein abused them speak out in court
- Investigators scrutinizing video outside Epstein’s cell find some footage unusable, according to people familiar with the inquiry
- ‘We need answers. Lots of them.’ What’s known and what’s next after Jeffrey Epstein’s death
Why is there a Braille message on my e-scooter?
No, blind people aren’t riding scooters. They do, however, need to know how to contact the scooter companies when they encounter the devices, which present a hazard when left lying around.
“It’s providing a transportation option for a lot of people,” Luz Lazo says of the popular e-scooter. “At the same time, it’s created tension in many cities because it’s been a new barrier that people with low vision, or who are blind, or who are traveling in a wheelchair have had to deal with.”
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“This is a landmark.” The court decision that could shape the future of the opioid crisis.
Lenny Bernstein on what a court ruling in Oklahoma could mean for the opioid epidemic. Carol D. Leonnig reports on Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers speaking out in court. And transportation reporter Luz Lazo explains why there may be Braille on your e-scooter.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay more than half a billion in Oklahoma opioid case
Health and medicine reporter Lenny Bernstein was in the Oklahoma courtroom yesterday when a judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson will have to pay $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis.
“Anybody who opens their eyes or reads the newspaper or watches television knows that we had a prescription opioid epidemic in this country for many years, and it still continues today,” Bernstein says. “The question is, who do we blame?”
With more than 40 states lined up to pursue similar claims against the pharmaceutical industry, Bernstein says the ruling here could influence both sides’ strategies going forward.
More on this topic:
- Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572 million for its role in Oklahoma’s opioid crisis
- Follow The Post’s investigation of the opioid epidemic
Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers get their day in court
“There are a lot of very angry and frustrated women who feel that they were victimized once and they never got their real day in court to face the man that they accuse of stealing their childhood from them,” reporter Carol D. Leonnig says.
One by one, Epstein accusers stood at the front of a federal courtroom, fighting back tears as they described how Jeffrey Epstein coerced and abused them, and — to the end — avoided their efforts to bring him to justice.
The women say they would have preferred a trial. But after Epstein’s apparent suicide in federal custody this month, they got only this: a hearing at which a judge weighed the prosecutors’ request to drop the new sex trafficking charges brought against the registered sex offender.
More on this topic:
- ‘He is a coward’: Women who say Jeffrey Epstein abused them speak out in court
- Investigators scrutinizing video outside Epstein’s cell find some footage unusable, according to people familiar with the inquiry
- ‘We need answers. Lots of them.’ What’s known and what’s next after Jeffrey Epstein’s death
Why is there a Braille message on my e-scooter?
No, blind people aren’t riding scooters. They do, however, need to know how to contact the scooter companies when they encounter the devices, which present a hazard when left lying around.
“It’s providing a transportation option for a lot of people,” Luz Lazo says of the popular e-scooter. “At the same time, it’s created tension in many cities because it’s been a new barrier that people with low vision, or who are blind, or who are traveling in a wheelchair have had to deal with.”
More on this topic:
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