 Ruling is a deep disappointment to tens of thousands of victims of the opioid crisis who hoped to receive part of the Purdue Pharma settlement. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for a deeply divided court, says the bankruptcy law cannot be used to prevent those who've rejected the settlement and want to sue the Sackler family directly from doing so. Fellow conservative Brett Kavanaugh wrote a sharply worded dissent in which he said the majority's decision is wrong on the law and devastating to opioid victims.