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Lawyers Are Using Addictive Substance to 'Improve Their Edge'—Watchdogs Issue Alert

"They don't actually go shopping for a high," said Robynn Moraites, North Carolina Lawyer Assistance Program director. "They're just trying to function."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Attorneys Reach $9M Settlement for Whistleblower Claims the US Declined

'This case really shows that trend, that lawyers can make a difference through aggressively handling declined litigation,' Kang Haggerty's Kandis Kovalsky said.
4 minute read

Law.com

Kratom—the Next Wave of Opioid Litigation?

"You don't expect to go into a store and find something similar to heroin between energy drinks and breath mints," said Georgia attorney Matt Wetherington of the Wetherington Law Firm.
6 minute read

Law.com

Tylenol's Prenatal Health Risks Lawsuits Against J&J Move Forward

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, in New York, refused on Thursday to dismiss 72 lawsuits alleging taking Tylenol while pregnant increases the risks of children developing autism or ADHD.
4 minute read

Law.com

'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!' Spray Isn't Butter and Isn't Misrepresentative, Says 9th Circuit

"As a matter of legal classification, it is a spray. Although plaintiffs claim there are factual disputes at play here, in truth plaintiffs simply disagree with the FDA's framework for how these types of products should be labeled," the majority wrote.
8 minute read

Law.com

Eleventh Circuit: Objector Ted Frank Has Standing, but Class Reps Don't

On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed an $8 million class action settlement over the brain performance supplement Neuriva after finding that Frank, of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, had standing to object.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Months After Mistrial, Former Blue Bell CEO Sentenced to Pay $100,000

Federal prosecutors initially charged Paul Kruse with felony crimes of wire fraud and conspiracy. However, jurors could not agree on a verdict at the conclusion of his trial last summer, and the case ended in a mistrial.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Judge Gets Death Threats Over Abortion Pill Case

"No compelling governmental interest justifies the court's actions, the news media coalition objects, and urges the court to immediately docket notice of the hearing," according to SMU Dedman School of Law First Amendment Clinic.
5 minute read

Law.com

Attorneys See Growth in Lawsuits Over Eye Disease Drug Tepezza

"This continues to grow into something that's larger than we first anticipated," said Ashlie Case Sletvold, of Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise in Cleveland, who has filed two cases against Horizon Therapeutics, which makes Tepezza.
4 minute read

Law.com

Scientific Lab Behind Dozens of Product Recalls Under the Microscope

In lawsuits, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever and others are challenging the scientific methods used by Valisure, the Connecticut laboratory whose reports have prompted recalls, and subsequent class actions, over drugs, sunscreen and dry shampoo.
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