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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the bankruptcy settlement between the United States and the opioid manufacturer Perdue Pharma, the creator of the OxyCotin painkiller that helped spark a nationwide addiction crisis. After digesting the ruling, legal analysts explained that while the Court killed the $6 billion settlement, it doesn’t take Perdue off the hook. “This case was about whether the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals correctly approved a multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the maker of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin, that would release members of the Sack…

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