A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arizona from enforcing a law banning transgenders from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The judge in Tucson granted a preliminary injunction to allow the processing of a lawsuit (pdf) filed on behalf of two prepubescent transgenders against the state’s “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which was passed by the Legislature…

NEW YORK—A U.S. judge on Thursday halted most of the tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder and other talc products caused cancer and stopped any trials as part of a company subsidiary’s second attempt to settle cases in bankruptcy proceedings. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan put most of the litigation…

A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary is again asking a U.S. judge to pause tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging the company’s baby powder and other talc products cause cancer, as it seeks to resolve the litigation in bankruptcy after a federal appeals court found its first attempt improper. At a Tuesday hearing in Trenton, New…

PONTIAC, Mich.—A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be sued for a shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded. Oakland County Circuit Judge Mary Ellen Brennan also dismissed Oxford Community Schools from civil lawsuits related to the shooting, stating that the district and staff are…

A U.S. court on Monday rejected pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson’s bankruptcy strategy to resolve billions of dollars in lawsuits that alleged the firm’s talc products cause cancer. A decision handed down by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia dismissed a Chapter 11 petition filed by a recently created J&J subsidiary LTL…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new standards on speech, under what it calls “preferred terms.” This designates conventional language as offensive and establishes new standards on speech for medical professionals, in line with social justice standards. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging that all federal actions could be…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new standards on speech, under what it calls “preferred terms.” This designates conventional language as offensive and establishes new standards on speech for medical professionals, in line with social justice standards. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging that all federal actions could be…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new standards on speech, under what it calls “preferred terms.” This designates conventional language as offensive and establishes new standards on speech for medical professionals, in line with social justice standards. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging that all federal actions could be…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new standards on speech, under what it calls “preferred terms.” This designates conventional language as offensive and establishes new standards on speech for medical professionals, in line with social justice standards. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging that all federal actions could be…

After the November 8, 2022, midterm elections, we do a recap of what took place, who won and who lost, and what anomalies are still being sorted. Republicans took much narrower gains than initially predicted, yet still are projected to take the House of Representatives. The Senate, meanwhile, could go either way. And in other…