As the chances for passage of pharmaceutical pricing and oversight bills fade in Congress and the White House, there is a bit of good news on that front from the Department of Justice (DOJ). Three generic drug makers have agreed to pay $447.2 million to resolve price-fixing allegations related to... Read More »
Dressed in wedding gowns and chains, and carrying bouquets and signs, a group of protesters gathered at the Massachusetts State House last month to protest laws that allow girls in the Commonwealth to marry when they are just 12 years old if their parents give permission. Anti-child marriage activists believe... Read More »
The Unruh Civil Rights Act (UCRA) became law in California in 1959. Along with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it prohibits access discrimination, prohibits discriminatory conduct by businesses against people with disabilities, and gives them the same rights and opportunities as those who are lucky enough to participate... Read More »
Three black defendants, two brothers and their cousin, were convicted of murdering two persons of the same race in a gang-related confrontation about allegedly stolen guns in 2012. Now, they will get a new trial because one of their potential jurors was improperly excluded from service after expressing support for... Read More »
The heartbreaking story of a woman who killed her six-week-old daughter by putting her in a microwave oven took a new twist when a California Court of Appeal reversed her conviction due to the improper admission of medical evidence to explain her tragic actions. Was defendant Ka Yang’s behavior due... Read More »
Using strictly procedural reasoning, Florida’s First District Court of Appeals thwarted the latest attempt to stop the state’s governor from disallowing mask mandates to protect school children from the deadly, raging coronavirus. This is the latest move in a despicable chess game being played between the governor, parents, school boards,... Read More »
The icing on the cake led to a lawsuit when a couple didn’t approve of the design on a special cake they ordered for their seven-year-old son’s birthday. Nasty Instagram postings and podcasts full of foul language by the birthday boy’s father led to a lawsuit by the bakery and... Read More »
A vague section in the California Penal Code led to the reversal of a man’s conviction for using an electronic device to track the movements of his estranged wife. The Code did not specify whether this kind of sleuthing activity is permissible when both the man and the woman he... Read More »
When emergencies strike, first responders are immediately called on to help those in need. The job descriptions of police officers and firefighters mandate contact with people whose health conditions cannot be determined before their lives are saved. It would be logical to assume these brave individuals would want protection from... Read More »
In the 1970s, Coca-Cola conducted an ad campaign that claimed its soft drink was “The Real Thing.” Now, fifty years later, a group of consumers challenged the soft drink’s advertising claims about what the soft drink really contains. They said Coke is “mislabeled.” The court disagreed and as a result,... Read More »
The City of Los Angeles is in the midst of a homeless crisis, almost hopelessly entangled in a political, social justice and public health quandary that continues to defy every solution. With approximately 35,000 homeless people living in the city, and 17,000 of them in “makeshift shelters” and encampments, the... Read More »
Calling the case before the court a “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process,” a federal judge in Michigan sanctioned three of ex-President Trump’s lawyers and four additional of-counsel attorneys for their attempts at “deceiving a federal court and the American people.” In a blistering 110-page opinion, the Hon.... Read More »
California legalized marijuana for persons 21 years of age or older in 2016 when voters passed Proposition 64 (Prop 64). The who, what, when, and where of some of Prop 64’s exceptions, however, are still debatable. Now, the California Supreme Court ended one of the “where” questions when it ruled... Read More »
The convictions of three men who participated in conspiracies to rob a series of jewelry stores near Los Angeles were affirmed by the Ninth Circuit, although the arguments about the scope of liability for each defendant may lead to closer examination of a 1946 law and a Supreme Court decision... Read More »
You go to college, study hard, and get a shiny new degree that you frame and hope to post on your office wall. You land your dream job and everything is great for a while. But then tragedy strikes. You get sick or have an accident and must stop working.... Read More »
