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US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted a stay order Friday to appellants contesting the terms of a $2.46 billion settlement between sexual abuse victims and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). BSA declared bankruptcy in 2020 amid thousands of lawsuits for sexual abuse against Scout Leaders. A settlement was approved by a bankruptcy judge [...]

Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) Cindy McCain called upon Israel on Monday to increase humanitarian access to Gaza. McCain met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to discuss the food crisis in the region. After the October 7 attack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) put a blockade in place in [...]

A group of 147 Congressional Republicans Wednesday filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court opposing the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request for emergency relief in the case concerning the Food And Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. The Supreme Court has temporarily extended the availability of the medication, and their [...]

Tennessee’s Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced Wednesday that the state is suing retail pharmacy giant Walgreens, accusing the chain of contributing to the state’s opioid crisis by failing to maintain effective controls against the abuse of opioids. The lawsuit states that between 2006 and 2020 Walgreens distributed over 1.1 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, amounting [...]

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey Wednesday announced a $161.5 million settlement with drug manufacturers Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (Teva) and Allergan over their involvement in the state’s opioid epidemic. The cash value of this settlement alone is “the highest per capita settlement in the nation” according to the announcement. A civil trial between the Attorney Generals office [...]

The Sackler family on Wednesday won immunity from opioid lawsuits linked to Purdue Pharma, their privately owned company, and its OxyContin medication when a federal judge approved a bankruptcy settlement to resolve thousands of opioid lawsuits. OxyContin is a prescription painkiller that is stronger than morphine. Nearly all 50 states filed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma [...]

Jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny announced in a handwritten letter posted to social media on March 31 that he is going on a hunger strike to protest his lack of adequate medical treatment and sleep deprivation that amounts to torture at the IK-2 prison in Pokrov. Navalny was sentenced in February to 2 1/2 years [...]

US District Court of the Northern District of Ohio Judge Dan Polster Friday denied a request by five retail pharmacy chains to dismiss opioid lawsuits filed by two Ohio counties. Lake and Trumbull Counties brought a common law absolute public nuisance claim against several pharmacies for dispensing prescription opioids to customers. The court previously concluded [...]

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday announced a settlement agreement between state attorneys general, local subdivisions, and Mallinckrodt (MNK), its subsidiaries, and certain other affiliates. MNK, the largest generic opioid manufacturer in the US, agreed to pay $1.6 billion to a trust that will cover opioid addiction treatment costs. The manufacturer also agreed to additional [...]

An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to pay $572.1 million to the state for their role in the state’s opioid crisis. The first trial of an opioid manufacturer, the decision is also the first holding a drug-maker culpable for the opioid epidemic. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter alleged that J&J’s false [...]