Law related news.
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s $7 billion-plus plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids will be sent to local governments, people who became addicted to the drug and other impacted groups after a judge’s ruling last week. The nationwide settlement advanced by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane was hammered out in negotiations [...]
LONDON (AP) — Google faced a setback last week in its attempt to overturn a multibillion-dollar European Union antitrust penalty involving Android after a top court’s legal adviser sided with regulators. The European Court of Justice’s advocate general, Juliane Kokott, recommended in a non-binding opinion that Google’s appeal against the fine worth more than $4.7 [...]
Safety analysts last week recommended that the engines on Boeing’s troubled 737 Max airplanes be modified quickly to prevent smoke from filling the cockpit or cabin after a safety feature is activated following a bird strike. The problem detailed by the National Transportation Safety Board emerged after two bird strikes involving Southwest Airlines planes in [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently affirmed an appellate-court decision to make older court records in residential-eviction cases once again searchable on the Hamilton County clerk of courts website. Justices unanimously ruled that the First District Court of Appeals determination that Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Pavan Parikh’s desire to restrict online access to certain [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico. The justices, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a federal appeals court ruling that invalidated the license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to a private company for the facility in southwest Texas. [...]
The attorneys general of Ohio and 48 other states, the District of Columbia and five United States territories have signed on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced this week. Now that the state sign-on period has concluded, local governments nationwide will [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A former Columbus doctor who was fired before being found not guilty on murder charges in the deaths of 14 patients lost a defamation lawsuit against his former employers this week, after a judge stepped in for a jury on grounds the evidence presented by the defendants was incontrovertible. Franklin County Common [...]
The Ohio State Bar Foundation Board of Trustees recently approved $559,000 in grants to several non-profit organizations that promote civics and law. The board approved a grant in the amount of $123,000 awarded to the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education for civics-education programs, which focus on teacher training and outreach to expand student engagement in [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed this week that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Wisconsin [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling last week that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education. The girl’s family says that her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to make sure she [...]