For the first time in years, in the Purdue Pharma opioids litigation, the Court is reviewing an unorthodox bankruptcy maneuver aimed at securing global settlement. This Essay critiques corporate defendants’ increasingly common turn to bankruptcy to shut down, or avoid altogether, complex civil litigation and the public goods it generates. 

 

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反对破产：公共诉讼价值观与大规模诉讼中对全球和平的无尽追求

在普渡制药阿片类药物诉讼中，法院多年来首次审查旨在确保全球和解的非正统破产策略。本文批评企业被告越来越普遍地转向破产，以结束或完全避免复杂的民事诉讼及其产生的公共产品。