SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request to temporarily put on hold a bankruptcy plan for the Boy Scouts of America while a challenge to that plan continues in a federal appeals court. Two-and-a-half years later, a bankruptcy court in Delaware confirmed a $2.5

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2023

A division of the Department of Justice objects to provisions in the plan that release members of the Sackler family, which principally owns the company and controlled it until recently, from civil liability for opioid-related claims. 2019, a bankruptcy court in New York put lawsuits against the company and the Sacklers on hold.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The high-profile bail case, In re Humphrey , headlines the Supreme Court’s January calendar, announced today. It will be the first oral arguments for Justice Martin Jenkins as a permanent member of the court. That bill never became law, however, because the voters blocked it in a referendum last month.

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LegalReader

APRIL 20, 2021

Attorneys for victims of child sex abuse have said the proposed settlement is not nearly sufficient for the tens of thousands of claims against the Scouts.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The result was a public health crisis and, eventually, thousands of lawsuits seeking trillions of dollars against Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, which principally owns the company and controlled it until recently, accusing them of having deceptively marketed the drug. One of the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code on which the U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 25, 2023

In reaching its decision, the Court relied heavily on First Amendment precedent established in Boy Scouts of America v. Facts of the Case Lorie Smith sought to expand her graphic design business, 303 Creative LLC, to include services for couples seeking wedding websites. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed.

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