{"id":106159,"date":"2024-06-27T15:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/supreme-court-blocks-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement-that-shields-sackler-family-of-liability\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:05:39","slug":"supreme-court-blocks-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement-that-shields-sackler-family-of-liability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/supreme-court-blocks-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement-that-shields-sackler-family-of-liability\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement that shields Sackler family of liability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-27\/GETTYRF_6222_SCOTUSBldg%20%281%29.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Ryan McGinnis\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an opioid settlement for Purdue Pharma that would have shielded the Sackler family from criminal liability.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-4 opinion was delivered by Justice Neil Gorsuch.<\/p>\n<p>Under the nationwide settlement deal, the Sacklers would have provided roughly $6 billion to redress harm from opioid addiction and give up ownership of the company. The sum would have been paid out to 138,000 victims and state governments and tribal communities.<\/p>\n<p>But in turn, the family behind OxyContin would&#8217;ve received immunity from any future opioid-related lawsuits and retained billions in past profits from drug sales.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Story developing&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan McGinnis\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an opioid settlement for Purdue Pharma that would have shielded the Sackler family from criminal liability. The 5-4 opinion was delivered by Justice Neil Gorsuch. Under the nationwide settlement deal, the Sacklers would have provided roughly $6 billion<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/supreme-court-blocks-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement-that-shields-sackler-family-of-liability\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}