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The US Supreme Court threw Purdue Pharma's $6 billion opioids settlement into question Thursday, accepting a challenge to the deal's immunizing the Sackler family, which controlled the drugmaker, from future litigation.The court agreed to hear the Justice Department's challenge, which argued that the Sacklers, who earned tens of billions of dollars flooding the country with highly addictive opioids, could not legally gain sweeping protection in the settlement.

Lawmakers have approved a $2 million settlement between the family of Izzy Tichenor and the Davis County School District. The 10-year-old died by suicide in 2021 after being bullied and belittled at school, her family said.

Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the U.S. Department of Justice's request to delay its multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy settlement resolving thousands of lawsuits against it over the opioid epidemic. The department's bankruptcy watchdog last week asked the Supreme Court to pause the settlement, which would shield the company's Sackler family owners from opioid lawsuits in exchange for a $6 billion contribution to a broader settlement with states, local governments and victims of addiction. The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the h...

“It’s important for the community and for the environment that we got these environmental protections in place,” said the Congaree Riverkeepers director.

Mallory Grossman died by suicide in 2017 after bullying at her school. Now, the district has settled with her family, paying $9.1 million.