A US federal judge rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic because of a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own.
Mr Tong said the ruling will "re-open the deeply flawed Purdue bankruptcy and force the Sackler family to confront the pain and devastation they have caused".
It would also develop new anti-addiction and anti-overdose drugs and provide them at little or no cost. The deal also calls for millions of company documents, including communications with lawyers, to be made public. Most state and local governments, Native American tribes, individual opioid victims and others who voted said the plan worked out in the bankruptcy court should be accepted.
"Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family remain named defendants in our ongoing litigation and we will hold them accountable for their unlawful behaviour, one way or another," she said.
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