Brett Kavanaugh Warns Supreme Court Decision Will Cause 'Too Much Harm'

Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned that the Supreme Court's decision on the Purdue Pharma opioid settlement will cause 'too much harm' if Congress fails to respond to the ruling.The Supreme Court blew up the multibillion-dollar bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, on Thursday, finding that the settlement inappropriately included legal protections for the Sackler family, which controlled the company.

As a result, opioid victims are now deprived of the substantial monetary recovery that they long fought for and finally secured after years of litigation.'Purdue's marketing of OxyContin to doctors and pain patients has been widely viewed as a catalyst of the nation's opioid crisis. Between 1999 and 2009, after the drug went on the market in 1996, nearly 247,000 people in the U.S. died from prescription-opioid overdoses.

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