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Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Plans would have provided billions of dollars to help address the nation’s opioid crisis while protecting the family that owns Purdue Pharma from future lawsuits.
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a controversial proposed Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan thatwould have provided billions of dollars to help address the nation’s opioid crisis in exchange for protecting the family that owns the company from future lawsuits. “No one has directed us to a statute or case suggesting American courts in the past enjoyed the power in bankruptcy to discharge [such] claims … all without the consent of those affected,” wrote Gorsuch, who was joined by Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Amy Coney Barrett. The legal issue before the Supreme Court in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma was whether, according to federal bankruptcy laws, the Sacklers can be shielded from future opioid-related litigation by those who do not consent to give up their rights to sue.
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