Nov 01, 2024
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$73 Million Settlement Reached in Class Action UCLA Sex Abuse Case

According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the #MeToo movement has led to a dramatic increase in class actions related to sexual abuse. Of course, even before the start of the #MeToo era, massive claims, such as the one involving the Catholic Church, exposed just how pervasive such misconduct is... Read More »

A handcuffed person in an orange jumpsuit is shown behind a bottle labeled "Sodium Thiopental" and medical equipment associated with lethal injection executions.
ABA Requests Postponements for Mid-Pandemic Federal Executions

In light of the seemingly ever-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, the legal dilemmas—not to mention the moral ones—surrounding capital punishment have multiplied with nearly the same exponential progression of the virus itself. Along with investigations pointing to unconscionable pain caused by lethal injection (now the federal government’s preferred method of execution), playing... Read More »

Two candidates for the Georgia runoff elections, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, speaking together outdoors while wearing masks.
Georgia Runoff Elections to Decide Senate Control

Georgia was already in the national spotlight for flipping blue this year. The last state to be called by the Associated Press, Georgia’s polls locked Joe Biden into the Presidency with a total of 306 electoral votes. It’s the first time the state has elected a Democratic President in decades.... Read More »

Protesters holding a banner that reads "DACA SÍ, TRUMP NO" during a demonstration advocating for the DACA program.
Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration’s Latest Attack on DACA

In a victory for Dreamers, their families, and hundreds of thousands of undocumented youths across the U.S., a federal court on November 14 struck down the Trump Administration’s latest attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis granted plaintiffs’ motion... Read More »

Bottle of OxyContin medication on a pharmacy shelf, labeled as containing 40 mg extended-release tablets.
Purdue Pharma $8B Settlement Approved

A judge accepted Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy claims on November 17, 2020 allowing the company to restructure and pay out their $8.3 billion settlement with the Department of Justice. Purdue Pharma developed the addictive opioid OxyContin in the 1990’s and has been mired in lawsuits ever since. The DOJ presented evidence... Read More »