The Latest Breaking News from Brett Kavanaugh

The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Purdue Pharma's $6 billion opioids settlement immunizing the Sackler family, which controlled the drugmaker, from future litigation.

The majority and the dissenters agree that the drug was "central" to "the opioid crisis," even though there is little evidence to support that thesis.

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against an estimated US$6 billion Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan on June 27, 2024, that would have shielded the Sackler family – which owned and controlled the company – from legal liability.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's $6 billion settlement that would have shielded the Sackler family, who owned the company and earned tens of billions as it flooded the country with the highly addictive drug, from future civil lawsuits over the role they played in…

By sheer coincidence, this ruling concerns the sort of generous ‘gifts’ and ‘gratuities’ that justices have been known to accept

Justice Jackson dissented, calling the reading “absurd and atextual”

Again and again, the conservative movement promotes cases based on inaccuracies, falsehoods and outright deceptions

The justices ruled that "objective evidence" of retaliation does not require "very specific comparator evidence."

The Supreme Court voted 7-2, with the majority justices upholding the tax's validity. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the deciding opinion for the majority, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote his dissent.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Moore v. U.S. considers how wealth is taxed in the United States.

The justices agreed that the plaintiffs didn't have standing to sue on the issue.