Public Policy
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. will pay $135 million to the state of Illinois to clear up allegations the Israeli drugmaker bilked the government by inflating prices for medicines covered by the state’s Medicaid program, according to a settlement announced Thursday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Fannie Mae isn’t a “consumer reporting agency” as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, meaning it can’t be held liable under the statute for inaccurate information generated by a computer program it licenses to mortgage lenders, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. and the Rockefeller Foundation, accused of participating in controversial syphilis experiments in Guatemala during the 1940s and 1950s, failed to show that their status as corporations protects them from liability under the Alien Tort Statute, a Maryland federal judge said Thursday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Twitter, Facebook and Google can’t be held responsible for a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, because those harmed in the incident can’t show the tech companies actually aided the attackers, a California federal judge has said… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Trump administration can’t enforce a rule issued last month that said migrants can only apply for asylum if they cross the U.S. border at a designated port of entry, a California federal judge ruled on Wednesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 