The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids but also would have provided billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic. ...
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“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 p...
The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an opioid settlement for Purdue Pharma that would have shielded the Sackler family from personal liability.
TheU.S. Supreme Courton Thursday voted to block a controversial bankruptcy deal for Purdue Pharma, the drug company at the center of the opioid crisis. The narrow 5-4 ruling rejected a nationwide bankruptcy settlement from proceeding with the company, and it potentially exposes the company's ow...
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....
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The Supreme Court extended the delay in the criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election, reducing the chance that Trump could be tried before the November election.In a historic ruling on Monday, the justices said for the first time that former ...
—The Supreme Court on Thursday derailed amulti-billion-dollar bankruptcy planfor Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, siding with the Biden administration over its objections to the agreement's broad protection for the Sackler family from civil lawsuits related to their role in the opioid ...