Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, along with the attorneys general in several other states, is seeking the reversal of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy order granting what they called “unprecedented lifetime legal immunity” for the family behind the company.

According to a statement from Tong’s office, a federal judge last week requested briefs addressing whether the court should consider the Sacklers’ extraction of $11 billion from Purdue in the years leading up to its bankruptcy in determining whether the Sackler liability release abuses the bankruptcy process.

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