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Philadelphia is pushing back against the $26 billion national opioid settlement with three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (D) filed a lawsuit in a Pennsylvania state court on Thursday asking a court to declare that Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) lacks the authority to bind the city to the settlement.
Krasner called the settlement a “sellout” in a news conference.
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“We are not going to accept a settlement that is a sellout,” Krasner said. “And from what I see, this is a sellout. The money is too low, the payments are too slow, and the money may never show.”
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