 Legal analyst Lori Levinson. This was a 5-4 decision with Justice Gorsuch writing for the majority, and the four dissenters included both conservative and liberal justices who felt that it was wrong, and as they put it, devastating, for more than 100,000 opioid victims and their families. And the decision reversed a lower court's ruling that would have given Purdue's owners immunity in exchange for paying up to $6 billion to settle thousands of OxyContin lawsuits.