A federal court ruled Tuesday to shield members of the Sackler family—which owns OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma—from any future civil lawsuits over their company’s ties to the opioid addiction crisis
, solidifying a deal that allows the disgraced family to pay $6 billion in exchange for immunity.... [+]The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York reversed a 2021 lower court ruling that found Sackler family members could not be protected from civil lawsuits as part of a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy deal because, while the company filed for bankruptcy in 2019, the individual family members never filed for bankruptcy protection themselves.
Tuesday’s ruling paves the way for a deal made in 2022 in which the Sackler family members who owned Purdue will pay $6 billion to settle the some
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