Should Johnson & Johnson prevail in its appeal of an Oklahoma's judge's finding that it created a public nuisance in the opioid crisis?

Johnson
& Johnson has been ordered to pay
well over half a billion dollars as a response to the
ruling that they
created a public nuisance that has contributed to the growing opioid crisis
and
that their products promoted addiction and facilitated the epidemic.
Naturally, they have
appealed this verdict, as all businesses likely would
have done.

There are
fundamentally two questions here:
whether the company should prevail from a legal standpoint,
and whether it
should prevail from a moral standpoint. If you think it is responsible for

contributing to the crisis, then from a moral...