At issue is whether a bankruptcy plan can be engineered to give legal immunity to a third party in this case, members of the Sackler family, who once controlled Purdue Pharma even though they themselves have not declared bankruptcy.
If the Supreme Court were to block the use of such a mechanism, known as a nonconsensual third-party release, the Sackler family would no longer be shielded from civil lawsuits.
Few such cases make it to the court because all parties are under pressure to settle.
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