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Pills are handled at a manufacturing plant. A North Dakota law regulating pharmacy benefit managers that was previously struck down as ERISA-preempted partially survived a legal challenge Wednesday, when the Eighth Circuit ruled that a handful of challenged provisions were preempted by federal Medicare Part D standards. Portions of the North Dakota law—which regulates PBMs like Express Script...

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Spring 2015 students on Shankill Road in Northern Ireland during spring break study abroad course. The Center for Law, Justice and Culture announced that 32 Ohio University students have been admitted to the Undergraduate Certificate in Law, Justice and Culture, 25 to the fall 2022 cohort and seven to the spring 2023 cohort. This is the ninth year of the selective certificate program, which l...

Transparency International is deeply concerned about the imminent approval of the ‘foreign agents bill’ put forward by the government of President Nayib Bukele in El Salvador that would severely handicap the work of civil society organisations (CSOs) and independent media. We call on the El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly to reject the draft bill that stands for approval and guarantee that al...

MILWAUKEE — Marquette Law School released its most recent poll Nov. 17, detailing how Americans feel about abortion rights and the Supreme Court. This comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide cases this term concerning restrictive abortion laws in Texas and Mississippi. A group of 1,004 Americans was polled nationally from Nov. 1 to 10 this year. The margin of error is +/-3.9 percenta...

Justin Sievert’s first day with the Jacksonville Jaguars was Monday. What You Need to Know Justin Sievert will report to chief legal officer Megha Parekh. Sievert was with Vela Wood for a year after spending three years at a law firm he co-founded. He is the third person to hold the Jaguars' GC post this year.

Criminalisation means survivors are vulnerable to blackmail to avoid imprisonment and stigma, but there is hope the colonial-era legislation could soon be repealed It was when the police knocked on Aatifa Farooqui’s* door and threatened to send her to prison that she first realised suicide was illegal in Pakistan. Farooqui’s father pleaded with the officers to be lenient, explaining that his ...

Over the years, midsize and large firms have invested in cybersecurity at the behest of their clients. But such demands aren’t always being aimed at solo practitioners or small law firms due to their clients and cases typically not setting cybersecurity requirements. Still, even with scant cybersecurity awareness among their clientele, high-profile attacks and intensifying insurance audits co...

Image from Shutterstock. Michele Pistone, a professor at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, says there are not enough immigration lawyers and attorneys who take on pro bono cases to meet the demand of immigrants seeking legal assistance. This justice gap is a primary reason that Pistone decided to create a program at her university to train paraprofessionals to become accr...

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