Counsel for some of the defendants in complex nationwide litigation concerning claimed defects in ASR hip implants marketed by a unit of Johnson & Johnson are asking a Georgia judge…
The U.S. Supreme Court may have moved too quickly when it found a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A Texas federal judge ruled today that he would not block a state law requiring women to have a sonogram before having an abortion, following Feb 6, 2012 10:59 PM CST
Therapeutic courts such as drug and domestic violence courts are effectively off limits to noncitizens, partly because the programs often require a conditional guilty plea that could result in deportation.
Elevated risks for heart disease, liver failure and obesity are among the claims researchers are making a bid for stricter government regulation of sugar.
The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a man with HIV is entitled to a hearing on whether he can legally be denied a job as…
The corporate parents of about two dozen hospitals in Maryland compile lists of medical malpractice lawyers willing to sue them and hand them out to injured patients.
A New York man claims in a lawsuit that Tostitos and SunChips aren’t made with “all-natural ingredients” as touted because some of the corn and oils come from genetically modified…
Six doctors and scientists have sued the Food and Drug Administration after discovering that the agency snooped into their personal Gmail accounts, which the staffers accessed from their government computers.
A Massachusetts dentist who allegedly used paper clips in place of standard steel posts, in order to save money, while performing root canals was sentenced today to one year in…
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a motion for oral argument time by a political advocacy group that argued Justice Elena Kagan should be disqualified from the constitutional challenge to…
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