US Trustee Urges Supreme Court to Reverse Second Circuit Purdue Nondebtor Release Decision, Says ‘Sprawling Tort Liability’ Can Be Resolved Without a Legal ‘Nuclear Weapon’

Relevant Documents:
U.S. Trustee Brief
Canadian Creditors Brief
Ellen Isaacs Brief

Four years after Purdue Pharma filed for chapter 11, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to review the most controversial element of the opioid maker’s plan of reorganization: the nonconsensual nondebtor releases of Purdue’s owners, members of the Sackler family. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the Sackler release in a decision issued in May, the nation’s highest court accepted an...