SCOTUSblog by Amy Howe 12/9/2019
https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/12/justices-turn-down-opioid-lawsuit-challenge-to-ultrasound-law/#more-290723The justices turned down without comment Arizona’s efforts to bring a lawsuit against the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the drug company that the family owns, in the Supreme Court. Explaining that the family and the company had “made billions off the promotion and sale of opioids, fueling a crisis with devastating effects in Arizona and the nation,†the state had asked the justices to exercise what is known as the Supreme Court’s “original jurisdiction.†In 2007, Purdue Pharma entered into a consent judgment with the state “to resolve the State’s investigation into the company’s misleading marketing of Oxycontin.†The state claimed that the company had violated that consent judgment; at the same time, it alleged, the state had transferred money to the Sacklers, which it wanted to recover to make sure that “the people of Arizona can obtain adequate relief for the devastation that the Sacklers and Purdue have wrought†in the state.
