October 20, 2021
Bankrupt drugmaker Purdue Pharma LP asked for permission from a New York judge late Tuesday to pay $12.4 million in fees and expenses incurred by committees of nonconsenting state and local governments during a Chapter 11 plan mediation process.
October 14, 2021
A New York bankruptcy judge on Thursday denied a motion from parties appealing the confirmation of Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan to bypass the normal appellate channels and bring their arguments directly to the Second Circuit.
October 12, 2021
A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday that she would hear oral arguments in the appeals of Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan on Nov. 30 after adopting a briefing schedule proposed by the debtors and saying that she is committed to an expedited appeal process.
October 08, 2021
A group of Canadian creditors told a New York bankruptcy judge that they support consolidating the appeals for Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan and that those appeals should be allowed to move directly to the Second Circuit.
September 24, 2021
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday became the latest attorney general to announce an appeal of the approval of Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan, saying the OxyContin maker's former owners in the Sackler family must be held accountable for their part in the opioid crisis.
September 22, 2021
The nondebtor, third-party releases included in Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan are unconstitutional, the U.S. Trustee's Office has argued, asking a New York bankruptcy judge to wait until a higher court rules on the federal watchdog's challenge to the releases.
September 16, 2021
The U.S. Trustee's Office has told a New York bankruptcy judge it will appeal his order approving Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan, saying the plan's liability releases for Purdue's Sackler family now-former owners go beyond the law and undermine confidence in the system.
September 13, 2021
A New York bankruptcy judge gave Purdue Pharma permission Monday to make incentive payments of up to $7.1 million to its top executives, rejecting arguments that the executives had not done enough to clean up the company's corporate culture.
September 01, 2021
A New York bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 plan, including contentious opioid liability releases for the company's now-former Sackler family owners.
August 27, 2021
Purdue Pharma told a New York bankruptcy judge on Friday that its owners in the Sackler family will no longer be getting releases for non-opioid liability, but liability immunity related to opioid claims will remain, as the hearing on the final decision on its Chapter 11 plan has been postponed.