Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy agreement, signed to protect the wealth of the Sackler family who have otherwise been shunned from society for enriching themselves as millions died due to addictions to opioids they marketed, will be reviewed by the Supreme Court, CBS News reports.
While rumors started here point to Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito looking to loosen the reins on the billionaire family because they need new roofs on their multiple homes, the case focuses around the lawsuit of Ellen Isaacs, a mother whose son died of an Oxycontin overdose. Isaacs has been running an international campaign to remove protections previously given to the Sackler family and to erase the Sackler name from prominent philanthropic mentions.
Isaacs does not feel the Sacklers have sufficiently compensated the families of those who died because the Sackler’s company knowing misrepresented the dangers of opioid addiction. “It’s really important to me that these people get held accountable for all the people that they’ve murdered,” she told CBS News. “They’re criminals and they needed to be treated as such.”