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Tort Question of the Month: Corporate Wrongdoing, and Personal Responsibility
CBS This Morning reported on January 24th, 2019 that the Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura Healey, is “targeting Purdue Pharma and eight members of the Sackler family who own the company, alleging in a lawsuit they are ‘personally responsible’ for deceptively selling OxyContin, the narcotic which is central to the opiod crisis.” “Family behind OxyContin maker…
Read MoreDo Judicial Nominees Need to be forthright?
The Senate is holding hearing on the confirmation of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. In recent years, hearings on judicial nominations have become elaborate pieces of theater. In this case, it’s Republican Senators lobbing softball questions to the nominee, Democratic Senators protesting the late-night dumping of tens of thousands of documents…
Read MoreThis Week In Torts: A Compendium Of Tort-Related News Ripped From Today’s Headlines!
Who’s Your Daddy? The New York Times is reporting that Dr. Donald Cline fathered many, many children, while running a fertility clinic in Indianapolis during the 1970’s and 1980’s. Many couples sought Dr. Cline out at his Indianapolis-area fertility clinic during the 1970s and ’80s. They had children, who grew up and had children of…
Read MoreHow would you like to reduce gun violence in the USA?
Everyone knows that there has been terrible carnage in America, caused by heavily armed shooters massacring unarmed citizens, including, tragically, school children. America leads the world in gun violence (among nations not engaged in civil war), and the number of deaths is terrifying, and terribly, heartbreakingly sad. We have the Second Amendment to the Constitution,…
Read MoreA Land without Law
We take the law for granted. Everyone knows that if someone hurts you wrongfully, that you can take them court, right?
Read MoreShould ex-cons serve on juries?
Recently, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order, restoring the voting rights of roughly 200,000 convicts who have completed their sentences. Approximately 5,000 of those people have since registered to vote. In signing the order, Governor McAuliffe also made those former criminals eligible to serve on juries. In response, some Virginia prosecutors have asked…
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