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Purdue Pharma L.P., formerly the Purdue Frederick Company (1892–2019), was an American privately held pharmaceutical company founded by John Purdue Gray. It was sold to Arthur , Mortimer , and Raymond Sackler in 1952, and then owned principally by the Sackler family and their descendants.
Amy Coney Barrett · Ketanji Brown Jackson. Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., (Docket No. 23-124), is a pending United States Supreme Court case regarding Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. [1] This case is about the settlement by Purdue Pharmaceutical for Opioid victims who overdosed with the OxyContin drug produced by their company.
Curtis Wright IV (born in 1949) is an American former government official known for his role in the Food and Drug Administration's approval of OxyContin for Purdue Pharma in 1995, followed by his subsequent employment by the company, which led to portrayals in films and reports in nonfiction books, magazines, and news media outlets of his alleged role as one of the key figures in the current ...
Purdue Pharma first introduced the opioid drug OxyContin in the 1990s and promoted it as non-addictive. The company has been accused of helping to fuel the opioid epidemic in the United States ...
On Dec. 4, 2023, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from ...
Purdue argued—and the bankruptcy court and 2nd Circuit agreed—that three key sections of the bankruptcy code, taken together, authorize a bankruptcy court to grant such releases: sections 105 ...
Richard Stephen Sackler (born March 10, 1945) [1] is an American billionaire businessman and physician who was the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, a former company best known as the developer of OxyContin, whose connection to the opioid epidemic in the United States was the subject of multiple lawsuits and fines, and that filed for ...
A federal bankruptcy judge is expected to rule Wednesday on whether to accept a settlement between OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, the states and thousands of local governments over an opioid ...