Supreme Court takes on Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case



ABC News’ Devin Dwyer has the details of the Purdue Pharma case that the Supreme Court is hearing and what it could mean for the company’s settlement and bankruptcy.

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22 comments

  1. So the family of el chapo Fentanil Inc or Pablo escobar Cocaine Inc, are not accountable?

  2. We all already know that the SCOTUS will be paid 'extremely' well to protect Big Pharmaceuticals – Not the people. They're taking away our rights to protect their corporate cronies and special interest groups. Just think about every company having legal immunity from damages by their products to consumers. Pharmaceutical companies will keep getting away with illegal drug sales w/o any accountability for the affliction and the deaths they caused.

  3. So every drug comes with directions and instructions. I've take pills for many different things…. But I wasn't a drug addict nor abused it so I'm not dead. Any drug that is not used as directed can lead to death. Everything is addictive including food. It's crazy to think people are that dumb.

  4. TELL THE WHOLE STORY!!!!! 93 % of money goes to gov and insurance companies and is paid over 18 years!!!! Victims get bubkes. IT IS IRRESPONSIBLE to state most victims approved the bankruptcy because it is NOT true Many yes, votes were manipulated:
    1. When filling out the initial claim against Purdue, victims were required to quantify their financial loss. My lost wages alone are over $2M. I sent in a claim, never expecting a penny. After all they had been paying political prostitutes for 20 years and would find a way to buy their way out.

    2. Nine months later, i received a ballot requesting my Approval or lack thereof of the bankruptcy plan. Having read, written and negotiated complex real estate contracts for decades I realized immediately the ballot was intentionally  difficult to understand and extremely deceptive.  I called 5 attorneys, some national, some local, none of whom would represent me.

    3. I then called the only number provided to victims, the Prime Clerk. Again. I am an educated woman and I thought the prime clerk was a neutral party who worked for the courts. I was told if I didn't vote yes, I would never see any money.  I hung up convinced that was the best thing to do. However, I then studied the ballot further and realized that my yes vote would give the sackler civil immunitty and they would walk with 11 billion dollars.  I was furious and did not understand why that was not explained to me by the Prime Clerk, the only contact I had at my disposal.

    3. I then learned the prime clerk worked indirectly for purdue Pharma and was not to advise me.  My civil rights were violated and i sent an affidavit to the US trustees swearing that the prime clerk was illegally encouraging yes votes.  My affidavit was ignored. 

    4.  "Coincidentally", just after victims received the Ballots and were deciding their vote, the major news outlets all began reporting half of the story. "Purdue Pharma is to pay 4.2 billion dollars to begin healing the opioid crisis," They forgot to mention 93% of the money goes to the government and insurance companies, and is paid over 18 years. Thousands of victims were again misled and voted yes.

    Having realized the attorneys sold out the individual victims, i decided to contact them.  I began the process of getting qualified to receive money. I had no intention of hiring these attorneys because I have been against the bankruptcy since realizing the ballot was written to confuse us "pillbillies. "  
    I contacted an attorney involved in the settlement and asked what proof was needed. I was told I needed a letter from my doctor stating that I had been prescribed opioids for over 6 months. I contacted my doctor who had treated me 2 decades earlier. Miraculously he wrote a letter stating he had treated me in 2001-2002, I had been prescribed opioids for 8 months and qualify for compensation from Purdue pharma. I sent the letter to the attorney who told me no, that's not enough. The doctor has to write the exact drug and the exact dosage. After 20 years my doctor no longer has those records. Then I was told I had to prove addiction. I sent them my papers from rehab showing opioid addiction.  they came back and said no. It has to say oxycontin addiction. Typically, when one goes to rehab, they are an alcoholic. They're not a vodka addict. They're an opioid addict, not an oxycontin addict. So the necessary documentation  is nearly impossible to produce. 
    Finally I asked the attorneys to send me an agreement.  I wanted to see how much they were demanding from the victims they had sold out. These attorneys that have a "passion for opioid addicts" want 40% plus expenses that are not capped, nor explained.

  5. So it seems likely that the Sachlers will walk, (6 to 3 decision maybe), proving definitively and for all time that the United States of America has two systems of justice: one for the rich and one for the poor. Also likely that the orange seditionfuehrer will be afforded the same deference. The rich go free, the poor get fucked because it’s America.

    And…. While Sandra Day O’Connor deserves some credit for busting the glass ceiling, she did vote for bush in the bush v. Gore decision. I will not find it in me to forgive that.

  6. Their body their choice. You can’t control what others choose to privately take or not take behind closed doors. It’s what Democracy and freedom is all about.

  7. I’ve taken OxyCodine prescribed for pain following surgery. It allowed me to fall asleep which was part of my healing and recovery. There is a lot of research that opioids taken for physical pain are not usually addictive. Unfortunately many of the overdose deaths were not associated with temporary physical pain relief. Doctors still prescribe it and nobody was forced to take it, even the abusers. I don’t really understand this. Did the company really market and sell it as a safe recreational drug? Maybe someone can explain that in more detail

  8. The Sacklers are like illegal drug trade cartel kingpins. Worse actually, as they conspired and used their 'legal" narcotic manufacturing, marketing and delivery corporate system as a front to prey on vulnerable populations and deceive defraud healthcare professionals and the masses. They acted with unconscionable impunity, killing hundreds of thousands, permanently altering and destroying the lives of millions. They believed they would be shielded by the corporation. They should be stripped of everything they have.

  9. So the people that made the decision to abuse it bear no responsibility?

  10. Announcing the Continuation of Saqar’s (Nibiru's) Summer as a Warning to Mankind

    Quote: let mankind and jinn witness my announcement for the continuation of the summer of Saqar of 2023. I also announce that autumn will be hotter than summer.

    Perhaps all human populations would like to say, “O God, ease this upon us! How would autumn be hotter than summer? We cannot wait for autumn's cool temperatures. But since when has autumn become hotter than summer? Are you talking nonsense?” Then Nasser Mohammed al-Yamani, Allaah's global caliph on all nations, replies to you and says: You can never hide the hotness of planet Saqar in the same way you hide the signs of the admonishments of the evil and violent Corona disease. Also, all those who turn people away from the truth (by hiding the signs) will die in their rage, and you will know that I am truthful.

    O non-Arabs and Arabs, did not I tell you that you entered the summer of Saqar in 2023? They cannot hide the summer of Saqar, which will continue till the day it passes on the earth, obstructing the sky from the earth and causing a heavenly eclipse from the south, the southeast, and the southwest. What I am saying is as accurate as 1+1=2. In consideration of the fact that I know from Allah what you do not, you will not find me giving myself grounds to take my words back. I do not say that I am predicting or supposing theories like climatologists who propagate for global warming because of carbon dioxide, as per the United Nations. They know that their claim is unscientific and irrational; however, they do not find anything to justify the rise of temperatures around planet Earth because they do not know and far is that from happening. I, the global caliph of Allaah on the whole nations, announce for the world that the most disastrous and bitter summer of Saqar will take over winter in the Arctic Circle, where many people live. People are eagerly waiting for winter, and for this I am announcing to them that according to what Allaah taught me, you will find starting from December 21, 2023, that winter will be hotter than autumn because those who do not use their minds will not take any lesson from the heat of autumn when they find it even hotter than last summer. Then the summer of Saqar will invade the whole earth with its two poles, the Antarctic Circle, the Arctic Circle, and the Middle East.

    So when will you understand that you have truly entered the direct summer of Saqar and say that Allah and His caliph, the Imam Mahdi Nasser Mohammed al-Yamani, have spoken the truth? You have indeed gone too far concerning warnings, but Allah has ultimate proofs for whoever wants to remember or fear Him.

    Unfortunately, signs and warnings do not benefit those who do not firmly believe that Allaah is the controller of the kingdom of the heavens and the earth because they believe the atheists' theories, in which they call the torment of Allaah “natural disasters”. May Allah seal their hearts, for they do not believe the truth until they witness the painful torment. But let me ask you this: What would you do when you see that autumn was hotter than summer? Woefully, signs and warnings do not benefit people who do not believe that Allaah is the controller over the kingdom of the earth and the heaven, O you who hold climate summits against the calamity of Allaah's climate war. It is as if you are able to change the climate of planet Earth! Not only this, but they hold climate summits in Muslim countries despite disagreeing with Muslim beliefs! Have Muslims become atheists now and deny the existence of Allaah like those in the East and West, O Middle Easterners? Atheists in the East, the West, and the Middle East will know who is in control of the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. Is it Allaah or them?

    Exalted is Allaah, the Great, who controls the kingdom of the heavens and the earth while they are debased.

    Anyway, starting from now, I shall announce the intensification of admonishments through the sign of the coming hot autumn by the command of Allah. You will find autumn hotter than summer, a sign for whomever desires to take heed. However, none shall take heed except those shown mercy by Allah who use their minds. I also announce, by the command of Allaah, the severe replacement of winter by the hotness of Saqar. Saqar will, by the command of Allaah the One the Overpowering, intensify its thermal fuming and raging towards planet Earth from the south, southeast, and southwest to raise the ferocity of Allaah's climate war against the people of Earth by air, land, and sea. Moreover, the war of the severe COVID, the firm plan of Allaah, will intensify, by the command of Allaah, after the de/ ath of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Indeed, the command of Allaah is inevitable. Beware, O you who want to extinguish the light of Allah (the Qur'an) in the east, west, and middle east. I swear by Allah, the One, the Overpowering, that He will perfect His light whether you like it or not, to the dismay of those who hate it.

    O the American president, Joseph Biden, you should roll out the red carpet, whether you like it or not. And do not support gay people who are like the people of the prophets Lut and Ibrahim (Abraham), whose men list for other men rather than women. Their people committed a shameful deed that no man has ever done before. They also denied the call of the messengers (Lut and Ibrahim) sent to them by Allaah to warn them and give glad tidings. They were arrogant enough to disbelieve their call, so Allaah seized them with all His might and power by the evil rain of fiery stones on the night Saqar passed 6000 years ago. Joseph Biden, be thankful, for I am to you and the whole world a clear warner and a sincere advisor.

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    Imam Mahdi Nasser Mohammed al-Yamani

    11—September—2023 AD

    Website: Mahdialumma . com

  11. Sandra Day O'Connor was probably the last honest Supreme Court judge

  12. (Daniel 9:27 was fulfilled on August 13 2023 also when the woman began travailing in birth to fulfill the time of the gentiles for the mystery of Revelation 12 to be completed, Daniel 12:1 next, three riders released within 2020 and 2023. These words are true and worthy and he who has ears to hear let him hear and blessed is he who understands.)

    “And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”

    Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 3.

    “And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”

    Gospel of Luke, chapter 21, verse 8 to 11.

    “All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.”

    Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 8 to 10.

    “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”

    Gospel of Luke, chapter 21, verse 25 to 28.

    “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

    Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 16 to 18.

    “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”

    First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 3 to 6.

    “Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.”

    Acts, chapter 8, verse 22.

    “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

    Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 3.

    “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

    Gospel of Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17.

    “After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.”

    Hosea, chapter 6, verse 2.

    “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

    Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8.

    “knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

    Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 3 to 4.

    “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

    First Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 3.

    “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

    First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 16 to 17.

    “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”

    First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 52.

    “I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”

    Gospel of Luke, chapter 17, verse 34 to 36.

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  13. Truly a broken system. The family should be ordered to spend time with the families and the staggering homless that were affected. Yet, so many lives have been destroyed and potential generations won't exist. Wasn't this supposed to be what cannabis was going to do to you? on the drug schedule class. Truly, a broken system anything to squeeze a buck out of you. anything to make you a criminal accept thoes who orchestrated the game.

  14. Can anybody shed light on the Sackler family's background?

  15. If they help the sacklers all their legitimacy is done

  16. H3ll no,hold the billionaires accountable.

  17. Where the hell did this guy get 80,000 deaths from? Since the mid 90s, well over 1 million people have died from opioid overdose.

  18. Nobody forced anyone to take a single pill! Every single pill was swallowed by Choice! So lets make people responsible for their own actions and decisions!! Just another case of consumer Greed!

  19. My future wife is an idiot.

  20. The Sackler family are no better than the Cartel