REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE AGAINST THE POWERFUL

On the opening day of New York’s new statute of limitations on sexual abuse lawsuits, over 400 survivors of child sex abuse filed claims against their abusers and institutions that allegedly hid cases of sexual abuse. On August 14, New York courts received at least 427 lawsuits filed by citizens who were sexually abused as […]

The U.S. District judge presiding over the Bard hernia mesh multidistrict litigation (MDL) announced the first Bard hernia mesh bellwether trials will begin in May, July, and September 2020. U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus announced the new trial dates in a case management order issued August 19th that amended a prior bellwether trial schedule […]

Nearly two dozen people have been hospitalized in the Midwest with serious breathing difficulties linked to vaping. However, doctors can’t pinpoint the answer why. NBC News reports doctors are struggling to identify what the patients—mostly young adults—inhaled or used as a vaping device. Additionally, medical officers have not been able to identify where patients purchased […]

Federal investigators discovered far more reports of seizures linked to vaping e-cigarettes than originally anticipated. On August 7, the FDA issued a press release stating their scientific investigation uncovered 127 reports of seizures linked to vaping electronic cigarettes. This number far surpasses the original number of 35 reports since 2010. The FDA launched their investigation […]

A Montana judge sentenced a former athletic trainer for Miles City Schools convicted of sexually abusing young athletes within his care. According to KULR8 News, James “Doc” Jensen acknowledged luring boys into sexual abuse by disguising it as a way to improve their athletic performance. Judge Dana Christensen sentenced Jensen to 12 years in prison […]

Under oath to Congress, two teens revealed a JUUL representative came into their high school classroom and called JUUL e-cigarettes “totally safe”. These claims came up July 25 during the first of two hearings presented by the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy to investigate JUUL’s involvement in lending to the nicotine addiction […]

A U.S. federal judge reexamined and reduced a landmark $2 billion jury verdict awarded to a California couple claiming their cancers were caused by exposure to Bayer AG’s Roundup weedkiller. The final verdict was reduced to $86.7 million. Judge Winifred Smith of the California Superior Court in Oakland ruled that the jury’s original $2 billion […]

Groundbreaking documentary Don’t Tell Anyone shares the voices of sexual abuse survivors in Poland as they bravely fight back against their alleged abusers in the Catholic Church. BBC News reports the first-hand accounts of Polish Catholic Church sexual abuse victims featured in the film. “I didn’t know about things like masturbation and touching. I had […]

Breast implant manufacturer Allergan Inc. instigated a recall worldwide for its textured breast implant model after findings of breast implant-caused cancer. The FDA states studies revealed Allergan’s Biocell breast implant was tied to cases of a rare lymphoma, with 80% of the over 500 confirmed lymphoma cases being tied to the Allergan implants. CBS News […]

The U.S. District Judge presiding over all Roundup lawsuits in the Roundup multidistrict litigation recently determined Monsanto Company should pay over $25M of the damages awarded to a Roundup cancer victim in the first bellwether trial. In a recently released court order, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria decided to uphold the jury’s full awarded amount […]