Economics
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A proposed supervised drug injection site in Philadelphia won approval to open its doors on Tuesday when a Pennsylvania federal judge swept aside the government’s arguments that the controversial facility, intended to reduce opioid overdose deaths, would violate federal drug laws… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A deadly 2018 crash on a California highway was partially the fault of shortcomings in Tesla Inc.’s autopilot system as well as the driver’s distraction by a video game, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A physician’s assistant charged with pretending to be a doctor and handing out unnecessary opioid prescriptions will have to face some of the previously dismissed charges against him, while his supervising physician is off the hook, a New Jersey state appeals court ruled Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New York drug distributor told a Rochester federal court that Hiscox Insurance Co. shouldn’t be allowed to “flee from its coverage obligations” in a case seeking to force the insurer to advance costs for an upcoming trial over the drug distributor’s alleged role in the opioid epidemic… Read this piece in its entirety at
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Ford Motor Co. has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case over a duty hike on the automaker’s imported vans, saying the Federal Circuit incorrectly categorized the vehicles as cargo vans instead of passenger vans and refused to correct the error… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 