Former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was handed a harsh sentence Wednesday, following a seven-day hearing which gave voice to the physician’s many victims. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who presided over Nassar’s trial and sentencing, condemned the sex predator to between 40 and 175 years in prison. “I just signed your death warrant,”
Mother Horrified by Footage of Mentally Ill Daughter Improperly Discharged
An Idaho court has ruled that a lawsuit filed by the state’s American Civil Liberties Union over public defender funding can move to class action status. “This decision is about ensuring even the most vulnerable among us have adequate legal representation and that public defenders have the time and resources they need to defend their
Whole Foods customers have been finding half stocked shelves while small time suppliers are getting edged out of the store. What’s going on, Whole Foods?
Michigan’s Taco Bell Employees Join Class Action Against Sundance
Female Janitors Allege ABM Didn’t Protect Them Against Harassment
The Food Safety Modernization Act became law in 2011, but did it help the FDA improve our food supply safety? A House subcommittee asked, the FDA answered.
Johnson & Johnson has been hit with numerous lawsuits by victims of mesothelioma, a rare asbestos-related cancer that tends to show symptoms years after exposure. The controversy over J&J baby powder is not new—rather, it’s decades old. In the early 1970s, a company official posed the question: If J&J Baby Powder contained 1 percent asbestos,
Monsanto Herbicide Still Banned in Arkansas
Losing a child is always hard, especially when the death could have been prevented. One father who lost a child in such a manner recently decided to file a wrongful death lawsuit against those he feels are responsible for his child’s untimely death, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Eric Gillispie lost his three-month-old daughter, Raynna Rae Boggs, in May 2010 when the child’s mother “passed out on top of her while under the influence of drugs and alcohol at her home in South Charleston.”