183 ABA Journal Healthcare & Pharmaceutics articles.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a mandatory life sentence without parole for possessing a small amount of marijuana.
Lee Carroll Brooker,…
Apr 20, 2016 4:00 PM CDT
A suburban St. Louis lawyer pleaded guilty Friday in a federal heroin-dealing case, after admitting Tuesday in a state supreme court document that he had smuggled the drug into a…
Apr 1, 2016 3:50 PM CDT
A unit of Johnson & Johnson that sold laparoscopic power morcellators used to cut a woman’s uterus into small pieces that could be extracted through a tiny incision is settling…
Mar 22, 2016 4:30 PM CDT
A former California physician was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in a landmark Los Angeles drug prosecution.
Dr. Hsiu-Ying “Lisa” Tseng, 46, gave up her license to practice…
Feb 5, 2016 5:00 PM CST
A small law firm is among a pioneering group of Illinois employers that are offering assurances they won’t punish their workers for using medical marijuana.
InHouse Physicians, one of the…
Feb 5, 2016 4:30 PM CST
A lawsuit filed by the widow of a Reed Smith partner against the makers of Paxil is headed to trial after a federal judge indicated he won’t rule on summary…
Jan 15, 2016 5:45 AM CST
A Raleigh, North Carolina, attorney accused of playing a role in a marijuana “grow house” operation and using his law office to help prepare fraudulent applications for bank loans has…
Jan 12, 2016 2:15 PM CST
A credit union formed to serve Colorado’s legal marijuana industry has lost its bid for approval by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Fourth…
Jan 6, 2016 4:30 PM CST
Updated: More than doubling the number of federal prison sentences he has commuted during his entire time in office, President Barack Obama on Friday granted clemency to 95 inmates and…
Dec 18, 2015 1:40 PM CST
Updated: In a 2013 speech delivered at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting, then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a new “Smart on Crime” initiative and called for a…
Dec 9, 2015 3:20 PM CST
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A lawsuit filed last week in Philadelphia seeks millions of dollars of damages for 113 women who say they became pregnant after taking birth control pills that were improperly packaged.
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