Supreme Court Appears Split Over Opioid Settlement for Purdue Pharma

The Supreme Court justices seemed divided on Monday over a fiercely contested bankruptcy settlement for Purdue Pharma that would funnel billions of dollars into addressing the opioid epidemic in exchange for shielding members of the wealthy Sackler family from related civil lawsuits. The U.S. Trustee Program, an office in the Justice Department, had challenged the …