Supreme Court Sackler immunity overview:
- Who: The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Sackler family should be granted immunity as part of Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy.
- Why: The Sackler family agreed to pay up to $6 billion to the estate to gain immunity from further opioid litigation liability as part of the bankruptcy.
- Where: The Supreme Court heard the Sackler immunity proceeding in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Sackler family that owned Purdue Pharma should gain immunity from further litigation as part of a bankruptcy settlement, Law360 reports.
The Sacklers agreed to pay up to $6 billion to the estate during the bankruptcy in exchange for immunity, the website reports.
However, a bankruptcy watchdog says such immunity might not be appropriate as it might prevent claims against the family even though the family was not the entity that filed the bankruptcy, according to Law360.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked why the court would go against long-standing precedent in the Sackler Purdue case in which the victims supported relieving the Sacklers’ liability after the payment by a 97% vote, Law360 reports.
“So in those narrow circumstances, bankruptcy courts for 30 years have been approving plans like this, and I guess I’m trying to figure out, with all that practice under the judiciary’s belt, why we would say it’s categorically inappropriate when the statutory term ‘appropriate’ is one that takes account usually of all the facts and circumstances,” Law360 reports Kavanaugh said during the Supreme Court proceeding.
Immunity allegedly common in bankruptcy proceeding but requires substantial majority
Immunity along with bankruptcy settlements is common but requires a substantial majority of the creditors to support those releases because they also apply to the creditors who do not give consent, Law360 reports.
Deputy Solicitor General Curtis E. Gannon said he believes the immunity granted to the Sacklers is far beyond what is appropriate and is basically a discharge of debts for the family without the family actually having to file for bankruptcy themselves, according to Law360.
In 2021, a bankruptcy judge said he would approve Purdue Pharma LP’s bankruptcy reorganization plan, which would protect Purdue and the Sackler family owners from current and future opioid class action lawsuits.
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I’m in the this lawsuit going on 4 years now and these people have jerked us Around the money they paid to try and get out of Paying the people who actually died or suffered lost everything we had when
They sit with maids and butlers . All they are worried about is their own personal wealth. Shame on them and there sleazy lawyers for letting them even want to file bankruptcy because they had a bad quarter In sales what do they expect they killed all there Customers so I have no sympathy for people like that. The lord works In Mysterious ways so they will get there personal hell like we live daily by there hands
I’ve been in this lawsuit forever it seems like. My opioid addiction led to fentanyl . I have o’d 3 times, and been off all that shyt for over yrs. Cause of having to pay for my scripts at the time , $1,200 a month I became homeless. What a mess. Can’t wait till this lawsuit is over n done with. Send out prayers to the families that has suffered from the opioid epidemic as well.
I think my son should be able to Sue the Perdue family for his addiction to oxycotton. And how it ruined his life and the family around him.
My whole life changed not only did I lose my sister the doctors and. Pharmacies had no problem to cash a script in I ate doctors nobody cared it’s all about the money for them . I gave up years of my life and missing times in my children’s life because of opiates and my addiction to them I didn’t wake up one morning and say hey I’m going to be an addict nobody cared they just kept writing and giving…. The fentanyl and heroin epidemic is all because of the pill addiction years ago.b some people Dr shopping to doctors writing scripts and pharmacies giving them out was just the money game to them . Please reach out to me
We lost a sister who had battled through being prescribed opioids. Our family will never be able to forget what happened. We have followed and sent documentation in the class action lawsuit.
Ads another to the list yes between 2010 and 2017 I was addicted. The first year of taking the opioids I didn’t even know that I was addicted. It has effected me and my family in extreme ways . I am currently on the path to try to get my children back for they were taken from me and my family was tore apart due to the “addiction”
I will never be ok, not until my babies come home and unless I get a team of supports that have a big voice that will never happen it feels like a death sentence right now!
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I have been in this suit for 3 yrs will be glad when done and over was addicted for from 2014 to 2021 prescribe 360 pills per month went cold turkey and it was pure hell all is well know I survived and am saddened to those who did not I am 66 know and thank God everyday for my family dealing with me
I also have been dealing with this along time I really hope it’s not for nothing.