Lawsuit

Health Concerns 

Pfizer Tested Drugs on Children

December 30, 2010December 30, 2010 RSB Staff antibiotic, Doctors Without Borders, drugs, epidemic, fda, Lawsuit, meningitis, Nigeria, Pfizer, settlement, Trovan, vaccine

In April 2009, Pfizer reportedly reached a tentative agreement on lawsuits regarding the vaccine trials it had conducted in 1996.

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Government and Media 

Some Targets Of Righthaven Lawsuits Fighting Back

September 7, 2010 RSB Staff allen lichenstein, american society of safety engineers, anthony curtis, ASSE, bloggers, civil procedure, copyright, dean mostofi, defendant, digital millenium copyright act, DMCA, due process, Facebook, federal law, federal rules, freund & brackey, google, infringment, joel tenenbaum, john paton, journalism, larry johnson, las vegas, Lawsuit, lewis and roca, marc randazza, marijuana, mark allin, maxwell kennerly, nonprofits, righthaven, ron coleman, russ hawkins, sam bayard, sherman frederick, small websites, southern gaming, stephens media llc, steve gibson, sued, viacom, youtube

The Righthaven lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas at first glance seem pretty simple: They show bloggers,

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Government and Media 

Daily Paul / Michael Nystrom Sued by Righthaven LLC in Blogger Copyright Shakedown

September 7, 2010 RSB Staff alex jones, armed citizen, copyright, DMCA, electronic frontier foundation, fraud, freedom of speech, jury, Lawsuit, righthaven llc, steve green

The first I heard that I was being sued came in an email from Las Vegas Sun reporter Steve Green.

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Government and Media 

Almond Growers Can Now Sue USDA

August 11, 2010 RSB Staff agriculture, almond, California, cornucopia, courts, farmers, farming, farms, growers, Lawsuit, Nuts, regulation, sue, USDA

Three years after the USDA destroyed the U.S. raw almond business by forcing almond producers to fumigate or pasteurize their

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Government and Media 

Feds Admit to Body Scans

August 5, 2010 RSB Staff Body Scans, Electronic Privacy Information Center, federal agencies, feds, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Justice Department, Lawsuit, Marc Rotenberg, Sari Koshetz, The Transportation Security Administration, The U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. government, William Brodley, X-ray

For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as

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Health Concerns 

Lawsuit: Antimicrobial Soaps Damage Reproductive Organs

August 5, 2010August 5, 2010 RSB Staff antimicrobial soaps, damage reproductive organs, Department of Health and Human Services, fda, kathleen sebelius, Lawsuit, nonprofit environmental group, personal care products, sex hormones, sperm quality, The National Resources Defense Council, toxic chemicals, triclosan, tricolcarban, U.S. District Court, United States

A nonprofit environmental group has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claiming the agency failed to regulate toxic chemicals

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Health Concerns 

9 in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting

June 29, 2010 RSB Staff billions, Defensive medicine, doctors, Dr. Tara Bishop, ER doctors, Helen Haskell, Lawsuit, Mal practice lawsuits, malpractice awards, Medical errors, overtesting, Overtreating, Paul Perantinides, U.S health care

Ninety percent of physicians surveyed said doctors overtest and overtreat to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits. That sentiment is more

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Government and Media 

McDonald’s Threatened With Lawsuit Over Happy Meal Toys

June 29, 2010 RSB Staff $100 million, banned, calories, Center of science in the public interest, customers, fatty foods, happy meal toys, Lawsuit, McDonalds, obesity, Unhealthy food

The Los Angeles Times recently reported that the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is planning to sue

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