Price v. Purdue Pharma Co.

How courts have described this case

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• barring plaintiff’s claim against doctors, pharmacies, and drug manufacturers for injuries sustained as result of drug addiction
• “If a plaintiff cannot open his case without showing that he has broken the law, a court will not aid him.”
• plaintiff’s malpractice claims against doctors and pharmacy were barred by wrongful conduct rule because his injuries resulted from his own illegal conduct in misrepresenting his medical history to obtain multiple prescriptions for controlled substance, OxyContin
• plaintiff’s malpractice claims against doctors and pharmacy were barred by wrongful conduct rule because his injuries resulted from his own illegal conduct in misrepresenting his medical history to obtain multiple prescriptions for controlled substance, OxyContin
• plaintiff was suing for his drug addiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).