Purdue Judge Signals Comfort With New Narrowed Sackler Releases

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain on Friday instructed lawyers for Purdue Pharma LP and its owners to “clean up” legal immunities that would be doled out under the drugmaker’s opioid settlement.

Purdue submitted yet another iteration of bankruptcy plan documents overnight intended to address Drain’s concerns over the scope of releases from opioid liability members of the Sackler family and related entities would receive under the deal.

Over the course of a trial that began earlier this month, lawyers have repeatedly fiddled with the structure of the releases to give Purdue’s owners broad legal immunity from opioid liability without ...