Even though one judge rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s sweeping settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the opioid crisis, another refused Wednesday to allow litigation to move ahead just yet against members of the Sackler family who own the company – but also ordered negotiations for a reworked settlement.
Sackler family members would also contribute $4.5-billion in cash and charitable assets, with the money to go to victims of the crisis and efforts to end the crisis, which has been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. since 2000, counting overdoses of both prescription opioids and illicit ones, such as heroin and illegally produced fentanyl.
In December, U.S District Judge Colleen McMahon ruled in favour of those states, finding that judges do not have authority to grant third-party releases as Drain did. Irve Goldman, a lawyer for Connecticut, said in court Wednesday that their suits against the Sacklers won’t be resumed immediately if the family members are in good-faith settlement negotiations. He also said that the Sacklers have not been in such talks so far since the settlement was dissolved on Dec. 16.
Litigations must be directed at licensing agencies !
I'm so sick of living in a world so corrupt they don;t even try and hide it, but flaunt it in our faces.
They should be in jail
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