Category Archives: Legal

‘Cry No Tears for These Death Profiteers’: Pharma Stocks Plunge as Biden Backs Vaccine Patent Waiver

Biden is suddenly backing a patent waiver for foreign manufacture of Covid vaccines. But do the mechanics make this a headfake?

California Bill Seeks to Prevent Hospital Administrators from Practicing Medicine Without a License

An important vehicle for doctors to take back control by keeping administrators from playing at medicine has oddly stayed under the radar.

Plaintiffs in Kentucky Retirement System Pension Case Expose Flagrant Corruption in Hiring of Tainted Attorney Regina Calcaterra, Best Known for Sabotaging New York Anti-Corruption Commission

Kentucky Retirement Systems stooped low in cooking its hiring process to pick coverup artist Regina Calceterra to run an “investigation”.

Abolish the OCC

The idea of getting rid of a hopelessly captured and largely redundant bank regulator, the OCC, is gaining support.

California Judiciary Committee Gives Blistering Assessment of CalPERS’ Fiduciary Duty Failings in Analysis of Fraud-Friendly Private Debt Secrecy Bill

The Judiciary Committee’s analysis of a CalPERS-sponsored bill shows that Sacramento is noticing the fund’s chicanery and incompetence.

CalPERS Employee Accused of Embezzling $685,000 from Beneficiary Bank and CalPERS Accounts Hasn’t Been Arrested, Much the Less Prosecuted. Why the Cover Up?

CalPERS has allowed an employee accused of massive embezzlement to go free for months rather than seek her arrest and prosecution. What is it hiding?

How America Can Curb the Epidemic of Violence Against Health Care Workers

Health care staffers are on the receiving end of violence more often than you might think, yet perilous little is done to protect them.

Privacy Champions Urge Passage of ‘Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale’ Act

Anti-Big-Tech sentiment has hit the point where it’s not crazy to hope for some recovery of digital privacy.

Jury Finds Derek Chauvin Guilty of Second Degree Murder, Third Degree Murder and Second Degree Manslaughter in George Floyd Trial

Jurors in the George Floyd trial found Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts: second degree nurder, third degree murder and second degree manslaughter

Latest Filings in Devastating Lawsuit Against Bank of America, Credit Suisse, and Bayer Board Members and Executives Over Disastrous Monsanto Acquisition

More artful lawyering in the derivative case against Bayer management, its board and financial advisers over the disastrous Monsanto purchase

Opioids Crisis: Trial of Four Drugmakers Begins in California

Tennessee judge enters default judgment against opioids manufacturer Endo Pharmaceuticals for discovery misconduct.

Two Dozen Senators Tell Biden It Is ‘Past Time’ to Finally Close Guantánamo

Senators press Biden finally to close the Guantánamo Bay offshore military prison, where 40 men are still being held despite global outrage.

What is the Bullshit Economy?

Establishing some first principles of the bullshit economy.

FTC, Where Art Thou?: Appliance Manufacturers Routinely Invalidate Warranties if Customers Use Third-Party Repair Services

Appliance manufacturers say their waranties are voided if consumers use third-party repair servces, despite contrary FTC guidelines.

Mitch McConnell to U.S. Business: Stay Out of Politics – But Keep Those Contributions Coming

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tells U.S. business: stay out of politics, but keep those campaign contributions coming.