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32 votes
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A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s
29 votes -
UK's NHS faces legal action over contract with data firm Palantir
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Research at the heart of a US lawsuit against the abortion pill has been retracted
28 votes -
EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as US undergoes overdose epidemic
10 votes -
Pharma bro Martin Shkreli goes ballistic on US federal appeals court for upholding lifetime ban from pharma industry
41 votes -
A quiet merger trial between antitrust enforcers and a pharma data giant called IQVIA reveals how bro-style executives control US medical data
13 votes -
Can doctors in England detain you under the Mental Health Act if they've only met you in MS Teams? (No, not any more)
14 votes -
Some developments in US abortion litigation in response to the Dobbs decision - other constitutional rights such as the right to travel are now in question
26 votes -
US court orders Balance of Nature to stop sales of supplements after FDA lawsuits
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US lawsuit on behalf of deceased patients alleges United Health denies care based on AI model with ninety percent error rate
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Verdict reached in Maya Kowalski civil suit against John Hopkins All Childrens' Hospital
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Monsanto hit with $175m verdict against Roundup – a string of nine- and ten-figure losses for the popular herbicide
27 votes -
Meta accused by states of using features to lure children to Instagram and Facebook
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Dozens of Greenlandic women who say they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge are planning to sue the Danish state
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The long, hard fight over the first cosmetic penis implant
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US Federal Trade Commission sues private equity firm for price fixing anesthesia services in Texas
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Women who were denied emergency abortions file lawsuits in three states: Lawsuits want to clarify abortion ban exceptions for ‘medical emergencies’ in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee
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Anti-abortion activists, including one who kept fetuses, convicted of illegally blocking a reproductive clinic in Washington, DC
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How one doctor in the USA keeps practicing, despite a long string of sanctions, fines, and lawsuits
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Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine
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Abortion advocates sue Alabama attorney general over prosecution threats for out-of-state travel
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US health insurance giant Cigna sued over algorithm allegedly used to deny coverage to hundreds of thousands of patients
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A new ACLU lawsuit alleges that Washington DC is discriminating against people with mental health disabilities by continuing to send armed officers to mental health calls
https://theappeal.org/dc-police-mental-health-crisis-response-aclu-lawsuit/ The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday alleging that the...
https://theappeal.org/dc-police-mental-health-crisis-response-aclu-lawsuit/
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday alleging that the district’s practice of sending police officers—instead of mental health specialists—to mental health emergencies violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“Someone who calls 911 for a physical health emergency gets trained medical providers who can treat and stabilize them,” said Susan Mizner, director of the ACLU’s Disability Rights Program, in a press release. “But someone who calls 911 for a mental health emergency gets a police officer with handcuffs and a gun.”
According to the lawsuit, these differing responses constitute a breach of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits government entities from denying people with disabilities equal access to government services and programs. The ACLU is suing on behalf of Bread for the City, a local nonprofit that provides healthcare and social services to lower-income and unhoused communities.
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Swedish appeals court ups surgeon's sentence for 'harm' during experimental windpipe transplants
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Covid backlash hobbles US public health and future pandemic response
8 votes -
Fruity Pebbles and Lucky Charms threaten to block “healthy” food labelling guidelines in court
9 votes -
Ninety-four women allege a Utah doctor sexually assaulted them. Here’s why a judge threw out their case.
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Steak dinners, sales reps and risky procedures: Inside the big business of clogged arteries
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UnitedHealthcare tried to deny coverage to a chronically ill US patient. He fought back, exposing the insurer’s inner workings.
15 votes -
New Zealand parents refuse use of vaccinated blood in life-saving surgery on baby
14 votes -
This man is allowed to starve himself to death, but not to eat some biscuits
9 votes -
Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills
9 votes -
Swedish court has given disgraced Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini a suspended sentence for causing bodily harm during an experimental stem-cell windpipe transplant
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Sacklers raise their offer to settle opioid lawsuits by more than $1 billion
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What to know about the battle over Fox Valley health care workers now playing out in court
12 votes -
Two disbarred lawyers sued a Texas doctor who performed an abortion. Flustered ‘pro-lifers’ are backpedaling
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A doctor who defied Texas' abortion law is sued, launching a legality test of the ban
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The Sacklers, who made billions from OxyContin, win immunity from US opioid lawsuits
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Japanese sex business operator sues state over virus cash handout snub
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US states seek $2.2 trillion from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma: filings
15 votes -
Hospitals in the US sued to keep prices secret. They lost
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Ontario to explore criminal charges against five long-term care homes in scathing military report, says Premier Doug Ford
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Few US prisoners have been released since beginning of the pandemic: Nearly 3/4s of those held at jails are pretrial--meaning thousands of legally innocent individuals face a potential death sentence
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Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down governor’s extension of stay-at-home order
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A Perth man has become the first person in Australia to be jailed for breaching emergency coronavirus laws after he repeatedly snuck out of his hotel room while he was supposed to be in quarantine
5 votes -
Two nurses denied jobs as midwives in Sweden because of their refusal to perform abortions have lost their legal action against Sweden at the ECHR
10 votes -
A spate of new class-action lawsuits threaten the CBD industry. Will they force Washington to act?
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The abortion war goes local as ACLU lawsuit seeks to thwart town’s ban
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University of Virginia health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes
14 votes