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SCOTUS Rejects Sacklers Immunity
Majority of justices ruled on meaning of legal code; dissenters called it "ruinous"
Between 1999 and 2019, as nearly 250,000 Americans died from prescription opioid overdoses, members of the Sackler family siphoned approximately $11 billion from the pharmaceutical company they ran, Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, a highly addictive and falsely marketed pain medication. In a minority opinion penned by Kavanaugh and joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, the justices blasted the ruling, calling it "wrong on the law and devastating for more than 100,000 opioid victims and their families." "The text of the Bankruptcy Code does not come close to requiring such a ruinous result," Kavanaugh wrote, noting that such deals granting immunity to "nondebtors" is a longstanding practice used to secure just settlements.
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