The Department of Justice has filed a Notice of Appeal from a Bankruptcy Judge's ruling approving a settlement in which the Sacklers received immunity from lawsuits arising out of the opioid epidemic.
The Sacklers are individuals who are not before the Bankruptcy Court in the Bankruptcy filed by Purdue Pharma.
The Sacklers, as the apparent owners of Purdue Pharma, can accurately be identified as profit-takers from the proceeds of opioid sales generated by their corporation, Purdue Pharma.
The United States Bankruptcy Trustee's Office in New York has appealed this decision. Assistant U.S. Trustee LINDA A. RIFFKIN filed the Notice, which also bears the names of DOJ Trial Attorneys PAUL K. SCHWARTZBERG, BENJAMIN J. HIGGINS, and ANDREW VELEZ-AVERA. A review of the internet for publicly available information also shows Attorneys Schwartzberg, Higgins, and Velez-Avera all as being in the United States Trustee's Office in New York.
These lawyers deserve credit and so does the DOJ for this decision. Best of luck to them all, and to their fellow appellate practitioners representing Certain Canadian First Nation and Metis People, Certain Canadian Municipalities, and the State of Maryland.
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