FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

By Karla L. Palmer — On Friday, October 6, 2023, DEA announced a second extension of telemedicine flexibilities concerning the prescribing of controlled substances, which were originally set to expire after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. As a reminder, back in February 2023, HPM blogged about DEA’s two proposed rules for prescribing (1) controlled substances generally and (2) for buprenorphine use in opioid treatment.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2023

We have been following the gradual elimination of common terms deemed offensive or microaggressive. The latest is the word “picnic.” After the University of Nevada Las Vegas law school’s Environmental Law Society announced a picnic, it was renamed “Lunch by the Lake” due to “diversity and inclusion” concerns. The ELS was able to avoid a second correction with a “Lunch in the Field” since “field” has also been found to be offensive at other schools.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2023

A federal judge allowed Oklahoma’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors to take effect on Thursday. In the opinion , Judge John Heil, III stated that the plaintiffs asking for injunctive relief “failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits” of their multiple constitutional claims. The plaintiffs challenged the law, SB 613 , on several constitutional grounds.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In academia, one of the most common criticisms in research and discussions is that correlation does not mean causation. It refers to the logical fallacy for some who draw a cause-and-effect relationship between two events. The logical fallacy is captured in the Latin phrase cum hoc ergo propter hoc (‘with this, therefore because of this’).

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Tamar Silam, a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. Imagine waking up to a morning marred by ceaseless blaring sirens. Yesterday morning at 6:30 AM, the ominous echoes of rocket explosions pierced the tranquility as Hamas launched a massive attack on Israel.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 2L. As of early Sunday morning, Israel has confirmed over 600 deaths, 2,000+ injured , an estimated 100+ kidnapped, and hundreds more missing following Saturday’s surprise attack by Hamas. Hamas launched over 4,000 rockets into Israel, in a surprise attack already being likened to the attack that started the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

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