President Joe Biden last week during his State of the Union speech called for strong criminal penalties in response to an unrelenting U.S. overdose crisis linked to the potent synthetic opioid ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein faced pushback on social media over a claim about his state’s gun violence. “Guns are the leading cause of death for children in North Carolina,” Stein said in a June 6 ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Over the years, many studies have investigated the effects of MSG. While some early research claimed it was harmful, later ...

The day before holding a "One Pill Kills" summit in Austin on the dangers of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has led to a surge in overdose deaths, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pointed out how deadly the ...

December 15, 2022 - In the landmark decisions Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (550 U.S. 544 (2007)), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal (556 U.S. 662 (2009)), the Supreme Court announced a new standard for ...

In Johnson v. Illinois State Toll Highway Authority [i], a limousine ride to the airport turned catastrophic when an unlicensed, speeding driver named Aaron Nash (“Nash”) missed a lane shift through a ...

Property insurance policies are complex legal contracts. That’s because the insurance industry has its own language and processes that can be subject to multiple interpretations. One of the terms that ...

For years, Tylenol has generally been considered safe for treating pain and fever – even during pregnancy, when doctors discourage patients from using many medications. Doctors might even recommend ...

Are firearms the leading cause of death in children? In a speech on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., recounted details of two recent mass shootings, one in a Buffalo ...

The U.S. reached a grim milestone in April 2021: more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in a single year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention press release on this ...