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by tylermenezes 1038 days ago
> - The Supreme Court just stopped the deal that would have let the Sackler family, the OxyContin pushers, off the hook personally.

Paused, and is reviewing an appeal after a court approved the deal.

> - Hunter Biden's no-jail plea deal was rejected, and he goes to trial.

It wasn't really rejected, there was no deal at all. The two parties didn't have the same understanding of a key term of the deal, the judge pointed it out, and then the parties weren't able to agree on that term.