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Open PDF File, 760.96 KB, for July 16, 2019 Director COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, ss. SUPERIOR COURT ) COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) v. ) ) PURDUE PHARMA L.P., PURDUE PHARMA ) INC., RICHARD SACKLER, THERESA ) SACKLER, KATHE SACKLER, JONATHAN CIVIL ACTION NO. 1884-CV-01808(B) ) SACKLER, MORTIMER D.A. SACKLER, ) BEVERLY SACKLER, DAVID SACKLER, ILENE ) SACKLER LEFCOURT, PETER BOER, PAULO ) COSTA, CECIL PICKETT, RALPH SNYDERMAN, ) JUDITH LEWENT, CRAIG LANDAU, JOHN ) STEWART, MARK TIMNEY, and RUSSELL J. ) GASDIA, ) ) Defendants. ) MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF THE INDIVIDUAL DIRECTORS’ MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM Robert J. Cordy (BBO # 099720) Matthew Knowles (BBO # 678935) Annabel Rodriguez (BBO # 696001) McDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP 28 State Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109 Tel.: (617) 535-4000 Fax: (617) 535-3800 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ......................................................................................................... iii PRELIMINARY STATEMENT .................................................................................................... 1 STATEMENT OF FACTS ............................................................................................................. 5 I. The FAC Largely Relies on Stale Allegations Which Precede the Relevant Period and Predate the Limitations Period ..................................................................................... 5 II. No Individual Director Engaged in Misconduct or Ordered Anyone Else to Violate the Law ................................................................................................................... 5 A. The FAC’s Allegations and Cited Documents Reveal that the Board and Its Directors Engaged in Ordinary Board Activities and Did Not Approve or Direct Any Alleged Misconduct ......................................................................... 6 1. The Vast Majority of the FAC’s Allegations Relate to Information the Board Received from Purdue’s Management ....................................... 7 2. The Board Voted on Ordinary Issues Like Staffing Levels and Annual Budgets; It Never “Controlled” Allegedly Deceptive Marketing .................................................................................................. 10 B. The FAC’s Allegations and Cited Documents Do Not Show How Any Individual Director Personally Engaged in Misconduct ....................................... 13 1. David Sackler ............................................................................................ 14 2. Jonathan Sackler ....................................................................................... 14 3. Kathe Sackler ............................................................................................ 15 4. Mortimer D.A. Sackler ............................................................................. 17 5. Richard Sackler ......................................................................................... 20 6. Theresa Sackler ......................................................................................... 23 7. Peter Boer.................................................................................................. 24 8. Paulo Costa ............................................................................................... 25 9. Judith Lewent ............................................................................................ 26 10. Cecil Pickett .............................................................................................. 26 11. Ralph Snyderman ...................................................................................... 26 i ARGUMENT ................................................................................................................................ 27 I. The FAC Fails to State a Claim Against Any Individual Director. .................................. 27 A. No Individual Director Personally Participated in Purdue’s Alleged Prescription Marketing Activities ......................................................................... 28 B. The Causal Link Between the Individual Directors’ Alleged Conduct and the Commonwealth’s Harm is Too Attenuated to Impose Liability ..................... 31 C. The Commonwealth Fails to Plead the Elements of a Nuisance Claim. .............. 33 D. All Claims Against the Individual Directors Are Fully, or in the Alternative, Partially Time Barred ........................................................................ 37 1. The Commonwealth’s Claims Are Based on Conduct Outside the Relevant Limitations Period. .................................................................... 37 2. The Discovery Rule Cannot Salvage the FAC’s Untimely Allegations. ............................................................................................... 38 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................. 41 ii TABLE OF AUTHORITIES CASES Abdallah v. Bain Capital LLC, 880 F. Supp. 2d 190 (D. Mass. 2012) ......................................................................................40 Alholm v. Town of Wareham, 371 Mass. 621 (1976) ..............................................................................................................34 Ass’n of Wash. Pub. Hosp. Dists. v. Philip Morris Inc., 241 F.3d 696 (9th Cir. 2001) ...................................................................................................31 Burbridge v. Bd. of Assessors of Lexington, 11 Mass. App. Ct. 546 (1981) ..................................................................................................40 Bykofsky v. Town of Lenox, No. SUCV201201876, 2013 WL 4106659 (Mass. Super. July 3, 2013) .................................28 City of Boston v. Smith & Wesson Corp., No. 199902590, 2000 WL 1473568 (Mass. Super. Ct. July 13, 2000) ...................................34 Claiborne v. Town of Cohasset, No. 02-P-1465, 2004 WL 57436 (Mass. App. Ct. Jan. 13, 2004) ...........................................33 Commonwealth v. Bragel, No. CIV.A. 2012-865-C, 2013 WL 7855997 (Mass. Super. Dec. 3, 2013) ............................31 Culley v. Cato, No. 064079, 2007 WL 867043 (Mass. Super. Mar. 5, 2007) ..................................................34 Detroit Bd. of Educ. v. Celotex Corp., 493 N.W.2d 513 (Mich. App. 1992) ........................................................................................36 Dolin v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, 901 F.3d 803 (7th Cir. 2018) ...................................................................................................20 Escude Cruz v. Ortho Pharm. Corp., 619 F.2d 902 (1st Cir. 1980) ....................................................................................................34 Galiastro v. Mortg. Elec. Registration Sys., Inc., 467 Mass. 160 (2014) ..............................................................................................................27 Ganim v. Smith & Wesson Corp., 258 Conn. 313 (2001) ..............................................................................................................32 Harvard Univ. v. Goldstein, No. CA 961020, 1996 WL 1186968 (Mass. Super. July 31, 1996) ...........................................5 iii Iannacchino v. Ford Motor Co., 451 Mass. 623 (2008) ..............................................................................................................27 In re Lead Paint Litig., 924 A.2d 484 (N.J. 2007).........................................................................................................36 Jupin v. Kask, 447 Mass. 141 (2006) ........................................................................................................34, 35 Kahyaoglu v. Caritas Carney Hosp., No. 12-P-1470, 2013 WL 4253968 (Mass. App. Ct. Aug. 16, 2013) ......................................38 Kent v. Commonwealth, 437 Mass. 312 (2002) ..............................................................................................................32 Leary v. City of Bos., 20 Mass. App. Ct. 605 (1985) ..................................................................................................34 Lowenstern v. Residential Credit Sols., CA No. 11-11760-MLW, 2013 WL 697108 (D. Mass. Feb. 25, 2013) ..................................27 Lyon v. Morphew, 424 Mass. 828 (1997) ..................................................................................................30, 31, 34 Mattoon v. City of Pittsfield., No. 93-0417, 1996 WL 34393584 (Mass. Super. Jan. 17, 1996) ............................................36 Minute Man Nat. Park Ass’n, Inc. v. Freedman, No. 12 MISC 458748 RBF, 2012 WL 3535846 (Mass. Land Ct. Aug. 3, 2012) ....................27 New World Techs., Inc. v. Microsmart, Inc., No. CA943008, 1995 WL 808647 (Mass. Super. Apr. 12, 1995) ...........................................29 Olsen v. Seifert, No. 976456, 1998 WL 1181710 (Mass. Super. Aug. 28, 1998) ..............................................27 Ortiz v. Examworks, Inc., 470 Mass. 784 (2015) ..............................................................................................................27 Passatempo v. McMeimen, 461 Mass. 279 (2012) ..............................................................................................................41 People ex rel. Spitzer v. Sturm, Ruger & Co., 761 N.Y.S.2d 192 (1st Dep’t 2003) .........................................................................................31
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