An appeals court granted the Sacklers legal immunity. Here’s what the sentence means.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted members of the billion-dollar Sackler family a legal golden key they’ve been seeking for nearly four years: The Sacklers will be protected from all civil opioid-related claims related to their company, Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription pain reliever OxyContin. In exchange, they agreed to make payments … Read more