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The drug compound industry, which is responsible for altering drug ingredients to create medications for the individual needs of a patient, takes advantage of weak regulations in pursuit of big profits and leaves patients vulnerable to unsafe medications, writes the president of the National Medical...
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After peaking in 2008, the U.S. imprisonment rate fell 11 percent over eight years, reaching its lowest level since 1997, write Adam Gelb and Jacob Denney of the Pew Charitable Trusts Public Safety Performance Project. The decline from 2015 to 16 was 2 percent, mostly...
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U.S. immigration officials are preparing a major sweep in San Francisco and other Northern California cities in which federal officers will try to arrest 1,500 undocumented people while sending a message that immigration policy will be enforced in the sanctuary state, reports the San Francisco...
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John Elwood reviews Tuesday’s relists.
True to form for the second conference in January, last week’s 18 new relists yielded 12 new cases and 11 hours of oral argument. (Texas’ two state-on-top appeals concerning its congressional and statehouse voting districts were consolidated.) An already blockbuster term...
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When Kristina Davis walked into her daughter’s parent-teacher conference high on heroin, it was a moment of truth. She knew things had to change.
The 31-year-old had tried to get sober before, but nothing stuck. So on Wednesday, she tried something new.
Sleepy-eyed but hopeful, Davis arrived...
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The implications of a data breach can impact a company or law firm for years as I discussed in Part I. Consumer trust and firm reputation are at stake, not to mention potential consumer class action suits and business partner litigation, 20 years of monitoring...