Supreme Court rejects settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over legal protections for the Sackler family that owned the company

Jun 28, 2024 07:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against an estimated US$6 billion Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan on June 27, 2024, that would have shielded the Sackler family which owned and controlled the company from legal...

Supreme Court sidesteps case on whether federal law on medical emergencies overrides Idaho’s abortion ban

Jun 28, 2024 07:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by the federal government regarding whether Idahos abortion ban conflicts with a federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The law...

Migrant Crisis Series

How Biden’s executive order to protect immigrant spouses of citizens from deportation will benefit their families and communities

Jun 20, 2024 05:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Rodrigo Salazar is a man who entered the U.S. without a visa and has been living in the country without legal status ever since. Because of this, Rodrigo, who asked that we not use his or his wifes real names in order to...

US laws created during slavery are still on the books. A legal scholar wants to at least acknowledge that history in legal citations

Jun 20, 2024 05:34 am UTC| Law

As the story of Juneteenth is told by modern-day historians, enslaved Black people were freed by laws, not combat. Union Gen. Gordon Granger said as much when he read General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, in front of...

Denmark bans noodles for being too hot – what you need to know about chilli heat

Jun 20, 2024 05:33 am UTC| Law

Chilli peppers love them or hate them, theyve got a heat thats hard to ignore. Recently, their fiery nature has even caused a bit of a stir in Denmark, where Buldak Ramen noodles have been banned for being dangerously...

Sunday school – Monday through Friday: Oklahoma joins states with ‘release time’ laws letting K-12 kids leave school for religious lessons

Jun 18, 2024 05:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Children in American public schools traditionally learned the three Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. Today, students in more than half of the U.S. states can study a fourth R: religion. Oklahoma is the most recent...

Modern-day outlaws, ‘sovereign citizens’ threaten the rule of law

Jun 18, 2024 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

In May 2024, an Oklahoma man was arrested and charged with kidnapping and murdering two women, becoming the fifth member of an anti-government group called Gods Misfits to face such charges. With the investigation still...