Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. The Delhi High Court came to a standstill Monday after lawyers heeded the (colloquially known as “Harthal”) call of the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) [...]
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San Francisco reaches $229M settlement with Walgreens after opioid epidemic lawsuit win
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced a $229 million settlement with Walgreens on Wednesday after winning a lawsuit against the company in 2022. The case was in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. According to Chiu, Walgreens will pay $229,610,000 to the city over 14 years with the “vast majority” [...]
India Needs to End Discriminatory Ban on LGBTQ+ Blood Donations
The act of donating blood is often lauded as a benevolent and altruistic act with the potential to save countless lives. However, members of the LGBTQ+ community are routinely excluded from participation in this philanthropic endeavour. Recently, the Indian government, citing scientific data, defended its decision to forbid LGBTQ+ individuals from donating blood. This issue [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled Tuesday that a program providing contraceptives to teenagers without prior parental consent violates the constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children. The lawsuit was brought by a plaintiff who argued that the Title X program violated his [...]
Oklahoma judge reduces J&J opioid settlement by $100 million due to math error
Months after the landmark opioid trial, an Oklahoma judge reduced the $572 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to $465 million Friday. According to the order, the $107 million reduction is due to a calculation error. Back in April the State of Oklahoma alleged that J&J’s false and misleading marketing practices contributed to the [...]
Will Congress’s Omnibus Opioids Bill Turn the Tide on America’s Drug Epidemic?
Earlier this month, Congress sent a sweeping legislative package aimed at curbing the opioid epidemic to President Trump’s desk for signature, and the President has said he intends to sign it. Despite the increasing rancor that has poisoned so much our political discourse, the Substance Use Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) [...]
Federal judge rules against family planning organizations in funding lawsuit
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was not required to engage in a formal notice-and-comment rule making procedure before shifting the criterion for evaluating grant applications under Title X of the Public Health Service Act . Title X allows [...]
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday unsealed an indictment against former Volkswagen (VW) CEO and chairman of the management board Martin Winterkorn on...
Lawsuits challenge government family planning policy shifts to abstinence
The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) and Planned Parenthood filed lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday over an alleged shift in policy for family planning services toward a focus on abstinence. The complaints [NFPRHA;...
Lawsuits challenge termination of teen pregnancy prevention program
Nine local government and health care organizations filed four lawsuits on Thursday in US federal district courts challenging the Trump administration's July 2017 termination of grants for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP Program), a congressionally mandated initiative funding programs...