The billionaire owners of\u00a0Purdue Pharma LP\u00a0must face a New York lawsuit claiming they triggered the U.S. opioid epidemic, a judge ruled, handing an early victory to states and local governments seeking to recoup billions of dollars in social costs from the drugs.<\/p>\n
A state judge on Friday denied the Sacklers\u2019 request to dismiss the lawsuit, filed by 58 counties and two dozen cities in New York. The ruling, in Suffolk County on Long Island, is the first by any court denying a motion by the Sacklers to throw out a suit by a state or county and allowing for pretrial fact-finding to proceed against the individual defendants and their trusts, said\u00a0Paul Naples<\/a>, an attorney representing the New York governments.<\/p>\n The ruling will require the Sacklers \u201cto undergo depositions that will start to get to the bottom of their relationship between each other and their relationship to their conduct on the board and here in New York,\u201d Napoli said in an interview.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Les propri\u00e9taires milliardaires de Purdue Pharma LP doivent faire face \u00e0 un proc\u00e8s \u00e0 New York affirmant qu'ils ont d\u00e9clench\u00e9 l'\u00e9pid\u00e9mie d'opio\u00efdes aux \u00c9tats-Unis, a jug\u00e9 un juge, accordant une victoire rapide aux \u00c9tats et aux gouvernements locaux\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":303,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[59,75,101,253,254],"whitepaper-source":[154],"class_list":["post-2577","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-paul-napoli","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-new-york-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper_category-opioid-crisis","whitepaper_category-opioid-epidemic","whitepaper-source-bloomberg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}