Walmart and the Justice Department disagreed on the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring prosecutors to prove doctors “knowingly” wrote invalid opioid prescriptions, with Walmart arguing the ruling obliterated the government’s civil lawsuit accusing it of failing to block millions of illegal opioid prescriptions, while Justice saying the decision bolstered its case.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey joined 24 other state AGs in calling on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to enforce a federal law against attempts to intimidate U.S. Supreme Court Justices by protesting outside the justices’ homes.
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s new rule letting asylum officers, rather than immigration judges, decide whether to grant asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border.
CHARLESTON – The state court trial accusing Janssen, the drug arm of Johnson & Johnson, and opioid suppliers Teva, Cephalon and Allergen of causing an epidemic in the West Virginia began Monday.
WASHINGTON – The version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act passed last week by House Democrats varies greatly from the compromise Sen. Joe Manchin offered earlier this summer. And the ranking member of the Committee on House Administration says Manchin, who likely will be the key vote when the matter goes to the Senate, wouldn’t support this latest version of the bill if he “were to follow his own framework.”
MONROE, Louisiana – A federal judge has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s moratorium on oil leases on public lands, including offshore lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.
CHARLESTON – A key former Drug Enforcement Administration official spent the day on the witness stand giving testimony between objections, legal limitations and frustrations.
CHARLESTON – A key former Drug Enforcement Administration officials took the stand in the landmark federal opioid trial, opening his testimony by saying drug distribution centers were well-equipped to prevent diversion.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Attorneys General from five states are urging President Joe Biden to withdraw the nomination of Vanita Gupta for associate AG, the number three position at the Justice Department.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined a bipartisan coalition of 38 AGs suing Google, claiming the tech giant illegally has a monopoly on general search engines and related advertising markets.
MARTINSBURG – The family of one of America’s most infamous gangsters has filed a lawsuit blaming his 2018 death at a federal prison in West Virginia on Bureau of Prisons employees.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A federal court document revealed that the U.S. Justice Department could intervene in a “citizen suit” launched by the watchdog foundation Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) against the American Action Network (AAN).
Earlier this month, media reports announced that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $300 million to non-partisan, good government groups devoted to ensuring that the November elections are conducted safely and fairly.
Should the executive branch of the federal government yield to the judicial branch in determining if a conservative political group must disclose its donors?
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Protection from certain lawsuits will help lenders who want to be quick to help small businesses handle the economic impacts of the coronavirus, a national legal reform group is saying.As the Small Business Administration receives comments regarding an interim final rule, the U.S.
WILMINGTON, Del. – David Gordon of California, who filed a bankruptcy plan as owner of defunct asbestos defendant Owens-Illinois in January, triggered a mighty battle among insurers the last time he filed one.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has concurred with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in ruling that abiding by state and federal design standards for aircraft components without federal pre-emption is permissible.
WASHINGTON – According to an amici brief filed by the Solicitor General with the U.S. Supreme Court, design standards for aircraft engines are the exclusive purview of the federal government and not applicable state law – a counter-argument to a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruling which said such pre-emption was not required.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Insys Therapeutics agreed to a resolution to settle the government's separate criminal and civil investigations regarding the promotion of opioid painkiller Subsys, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on June 5.
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) – The United States filed a complaint against Mallinckrodt ARD LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging that the defendant violated the False Claims Act.
