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Supreme Court rejects settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over legal protections for the Sackler family that owned the company

  • Written by Jonathan Lipson, Professor of Law, Temple University
Supreme Court rejects settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over legal protections for the Sackler family that owned the companyGrace Bisch, whose stepson died as a result of an overdose, protests outside the Supreme Court in December 2023. Michael A. McCoy/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against an estimated US$6 billion Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan on June 27, 2024, that would have shielded the Sackler family – which owned and...

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