May 9, 2024
Jasnoor Hundal, a third-year law student at Temple Law, examines the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy and its pending Supreme Court appeal, exploring the discrepancies among circuit courts and the absence of clear statutory guidance concerning nonconsensual third-party releases.
Professor Jonathan Lipson and Charlotte Bismuth, author of Bad Medicine, discuss the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy and the challenges it presents for both the legal system and people who were harmed by OxyContin. Interviewer: Professor Jonathan Lipson, Harold E. Kohn Chair Guest: Charlotte Bismuth, author of Bad Medicine and former prosecutor for the New York County
Award-winning Author Beth Macy at Temple Law School to discuss the opioid crisis with a panel of experts, including host Professor Jonathan Lipson.
Professor Jonathan Lipson discusses the emerging issue of vertical forum shopping in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.
On November 10, 2020, Temple Law Professor and 10-Q Faculty Editor Jonathan Lipson delivered the 2020 Friel-Scanlan lecture titled “Sex, Drugs, and Bankruptcy: Due Process and Social Debt.” The lecture was delivered against the backdrop of the American opioid crisis and recent events surrounding the well-publicized bankruptcies of Purdue Pharma, Boy Scouts of America, and other debtors with liability for egregious misconduct. Professor Lipson argued that a bankruptcy system which offers sweeping releases from civil and criminal liability for those involved in this wrongdoing upsets the basic tenets of Due Process.
Recently, I (along with colleagues at other law schools) asked that an “examiner” be appointed in the Purdue Pharma chapter 11 bankruptcy case, pending in the Southern District of New York. Although the Bankruptcy Court has not yet acted on that request (technically, it was in the form of a letter to the United States