COLLEEN MCMAHON

Teva Pharmaceuticals will now face another trial to determine how much money it owes the state.

A judge has kept lawsuits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family who own it on hold until Feb. 1 but ordered the parties to negotiate a new settlement.

A federal judge’s decision to reject a multibillion dollar opioid settlement involving OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is being hailed as a step toward justice by advocates who have long called for greater accountability for the family that owns the company.

Purdue sought bankruptcy protection in 2019 as it faced thousands of lawsuits over its drug OxyContin.

A judge ruled that federal bankruptcy law does not authorize the court to release people who are not declaring bankruptcy themselves from separate lawsuits.

A federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s sweeping deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

Lawyers for a handful of states say members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma are abusing the bankruptcy process.

A federal judge says OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma can resume laying the groundwork to carry out its $10 billion settlement plan.

Judge Colleen McMahon was expected to halt work on the controversial settlement that would give immunity from opioid lawsuits to the Sackler family. Instead she allowed work on the plan to go ahead.

The federal jail in Brooklyn routinely flouts civil liberties and staffers allow fights and drugs to run rampant, lawyers say.

Castel, who presided over the first two pandemic-era jury trials in the fall, said COVID-19 protocols have become routine. AdThat’s important because some of the nation’s oldest judges are among the 70 or so who sit in the two courthouses. AdOnly nine jury trials were conducted in the fall, but there have been seven since mid-February, including four underway this week. At the Manhattan courthouses, some jurors are rescheduled if they don’t want to attend a trial in person. You forget to sanitize your hands.”AdU.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel, who presided over the first two pandemic-era jury trials in the fall, said protocols do become routine, eventually.