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Supreme Court denies Johnson and Johnson appeal over talcum powder lawsuits

JURIST

The Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by Johnson & Johnson seeking to halt lawsuits alleging that the company failed to warn consumers of the dangers posed by talcum powder in their products. Because the FDA did not require a warning label, Johnson & Johnson argues that Mississippi is barred from suing the company.

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New York City Advocates and Legislators Push To End ‘Predatory Court Fees’

The Crime Report

Advocates and legislators gathered outside of a supermarket in Brooklyn last week, rallying behind the End Predatory Court Fees Act, a piece of Albany legislation aimed at eliminating New York court surcharges and fees including mandatory minimum fines, incarceration on the basis of unpaid fines and fees and garnishment of commissary accounts. “In

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D.C. Circuit Sides with Manufacturers in Latest 340B Contract Pharmacy Case

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act does not prohibit pharmaceutical manufacturers from imposing conditions on the distribution of discounted drugs to covered entities in the program. By Sophia R. Gaulkin & Alan M.

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“Milestones for African Americans in the California Judicial Branch” has a number of Supreme Court connections

At the Lectern

From the news release by Karen Datangel: “This February, California courts and the Judicial Council of California join the nation in recognizing Black History Month. Some of them relate to California’s Supreme Court: In re Perkins (1852) 2 Cal. Lee later got his freedom from a federal court ruling. 31, 2022, 8.6%

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A ‘Fair and Speedy Trial’ is a Pipe Dream for Many Poor Americans: Study

The Crime Report

While most Americans believe arrested people go to court soon after their arrest, Constitutional guarantees of a “fair and speedy trial” are infrequently honored in our under-resourced criminal justice system, according to a study produced by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.

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In New York State Rifle, the court should look to text, history, and tradition

SCOTUSBlog

The court should decide the case based on text, history, and tradition, the methodology it applied in District of Columbia v. In Heller, the court eschewed an “interest-balancing” test under which judges “decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon,” and it should do the same here.

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Arizona Adopts Lethal Nazi Gas for Executions

The Crime Report

The department pointed to the Arizona statute allowing a defendant sentenced to death to choose between lethal injection or lethal gas at least 20 days before the execution date. Lethal gas is permitted for executions in six other states: Alabama, California, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wyoming.

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