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Judge set to rule on Purdue Pharma's opioid settlement plan

by Geoff Mulvihill
| September 1, 2021 12:03 AM

A federal bankruptcy judge is expected to rule Wednesday on whether to accept a settlement between OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, the states and thousands of local governments over an opioid crisis that has killed a half-million Americans over the last two decades.

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