A federal judge in the United States has thrown out a sweeping bankruptcy settlement reached by OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma which had sought to put to rest thousands of lawsuits connected to the company’s role in the opioid epidemic.Federal Judge Colleen McMahon on Thursday ruled that a key provision of the settlement – that members of the Sackler family, which own the company, could not face separate lawsuits – was not legal.In her ruling, she said because the bankruptcy code “confers no such authority, the order confirming the plan must be vacated”.
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