![Oklahoma Supreme Court Tosses Johnson & Johnson’s $465M Opioid Penalty]()
by Andrew Marquardt | Nov 9, 2021 | Featured, Science + Technology
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson was spared from a $465 million judgment on Tuesday for its purported role in facilitating Oklahoma’s ongoing, lethal opioid epidemic. The state’s Supreme Court struck down a lower court’s 2019 decision, which held the...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Nov 9, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed likely to rule narrowly in a lawsuit challenging the FBI’s surveillance of mosques during oral arguments on Monday. The case, Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga, stems from an FBI investigation from 2006 and 2007 called...
by Julia Mueller | Nov 9, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on whether Puerto Rico residents can qualify for a federal benefit program. In 2012, Jose Luis Vaello-Madero left work because of serious illness and began receiving Supplemental Security Income, a federal...
by Allison Novelo | Nov 4, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — When the pandemic struck and schools closed, women stepped into the full-time role of both breadwinner and caregiver. Unable to juggle it all, many were pushed out of their jobs, and so began the nation’s first female recession. “Women spent 30% more of...
![Stifling Abortion Access Doesn’t Stop Abortions or Help Women, Experts Say]()
by Julia Mueller | Nov 4, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Republicans argued at a House Judiciary hearing Thursday that the controversial Texas SB 8, which bans abortions after the first detection of a fetal heart beat at six weeks, would protect mothers and children alike and aid in ending abortion procedures...
by Julia Shapero | Nov 4, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday expressed some skepticism about former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege during the first hearing in a case challenging documents requested by a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6...
