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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Breyer dismisses private claims remaining against McKinsey and Co. in long-running legal battles over their marketing role in helping Purdue Pharma manufacture and sell opioids. The company has or is in the process of settling the claims with various government entities, Native tribes and private companies, but a handful of private plaintiffs have continued to sue the company on behalf of minors with neonatal abstinence syndrome. Negligence claims from the private plaintiffs cannot survive due to the fact that McKinsey, while key in helping boost the sales of opioids, was not directly in the business of prescribing them to pregnant women. Its consulting role in the opioid crisis is not enough to establish a special relationship between the women and the company.