LEGAL NEWSLINE

While this is a real legal stretch, it remains to be seen how this Texas lawsuit will unfold - or what fantastical legal and political machinations may follow later this week - our first rule about the 2020 election is to bet on absolutely nothing.

By working more closely with the states, the DEA and its Office of Diversion Control can make its enforcement and diversion control efforts more effective. Like someone once said, we’re “stronger together.”

This is a clarion call for accountability and bipartisanship in the pursuit of genuine consumer protection. The CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger should apply her new accountability to take control of a misguided and failing case foisted upon her by Rob Cordray and end it.

The headline above poses an interesting question. Why, indeed? But some do, and the delays they’ve caused in energy production and distribution (esp., pipeline projects) could have dire consequences for national security. Already, unnecessary delays have cost billions in litigation expenses, lost job opportunities, and higher utility bills for businesses and consumers. One can only speculate as to their self-interested or ideological motives as they persist in their obstructionism.

The Prevention of Deceptive Lawsuit Advertising and Solicitation Practices Regarding the Use of Medications Act is a good law, long overdue – and, needless to say, opposed by the abusers it targets, who, suddenly and preposterously, have decided to present themselves as defenders of free speech.

Populated by zealous Obama administration holdovers, the CFPB is unaccountable to Trump and taxpayers.

The message to legislators is clear: We can do whatever we want to the laws you come up with.

The plaintiffs don’t seem interested in going after smaller outfits.

It behooves us to ask who’s benefiting from all the activism, and who always gets stuck with the bill.

Hoosiers, hillbillies, rednecks, and crackers – we’ve all been treated with contempt by our self-proclaimed superiors, and we’ve had enough. They think they’re so smart and we’re so dumb, but they overestimate themselves and underestimate us.

"That’s like saying, ‘I want gajillion bajillion dollars!’”

Lawyers running anti-drug commercials should be held accountable for their claims. If they can’t substantiate those claims, they should be forced to compensate the companies whose sales they’ve depressed and the drug users whose health they’ve impaired.