In a narrow 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court rejected a nationwide bankruptcy settlement that would have allocated up to $6 billion to opioid victims and their families and to efforts aimed at combatting the epidemic. Justice Neil Gorsuch argued over a provision granting immunity to the Sackler ...
Healthcare Litigation attorney Andrew Solinger was quoted in a Law360 article discussing the effects of last year’s Supreme Court decision that set a higher bar for convictions under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
On March 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on a serious issue facing medical practitioners: When can their care turn criminal in the context of prescribing opioids? The Court’s decision will have broad implications not only for the many physicians and other practitioners who p...
A narrowly divided Supreme Court in a 5-4decisionstruck down a hard-fought bankruptcy plan for OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma that would have awarded $6 billion to state and local governments to fight opioid addiction and payouts to more than 100,000 ...
This case presented the Supreme Court with its first opportunity toclarify its June 2022 decisionthat expanded the scope of the Second Amendment. In that ruling inNew York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen,the justiceslaid out a new standardwhich says gun laws must fit with the natio...
“Opioid victims and other future victims of mass torts will suffer greatly in the wake of today’s unfortunate and destabilizing decision,” Kavanaugh wrote. Today’s Supreme Court ruling ends the bankruptcy plan that would have shielded members of the Sackler family from civil litigation. As pa...
How the Supreme Court justices are voting on major 2024 decisions Families of those lost in opioid crisis 'devastated' by Supreme Court's decision to reject Purdue settlement Supreme Court blocks EPA's interstate air pollution regulation The ruling overturns a 2022 decision by the 9th U.S. Circ...
The decision from the Supreme Court in the case known as Harrington v. Purdue Pharma upends the agreement negotiated with state and local governments, and victims of the opioid epidemic, which included a commitment from the Sacklers to contribute up to $6 billion for abatement of the opioid cr...
The Supreme Courthas ruled on the multibillion-dollar bankruptcy plan forOxyContinmaker Purdue Pharma,ruling against the dealin a 5-4 decision, over a dissent by Justice Brett Kavanaugh that said it "is wrong on the law and devastating for more than 100,000 opioid victims and their families....
"Going forward, depriving bankruptcy courts of this tool, what will be the effect going forward in other cases like this?" she asked. A decision from the Supreme Court is expected by the end of June.