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Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy: A Battle Over Much More Than Dollars and Cents

Posted on: August 10th, 2022 by

In 2019, opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma filed bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York. A large portion of the debt listed on its bankruptcy schedules came from judgments and potential lawsuits against it for its role in the opioid epidemic. Purdue’s owners, the Sackler family, were named in many of those lawsuits and would […]