If county and city law enforcers have discretion not to charge low-level drug offenses, do they also have discretion not to charge low-level gun offenses? Cam Edwards on the Virginia battle over ...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/charge-dropping-sanctuary-status-and-the-peoples-voice/
Lengthy exposé of abuses and money-chasing in the drug- and alcohol-recovery industry has many angles, some relating to the legal environment in which the abuses arise: “We kept hearing about ...
Central planning meets the Drug War: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) presumes to know and decree “just how many prescription opioids of all classifications and in all situations will be n...
1) Batches of black-market vaping products, mostly containing THC rather than nicotine and used to get high, turn out to contain adulterants, most likely Vitamin E acetate, known to be harmful wh...
Under a sweeping surveillance program, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration “secretly spied on Americans who bought money counters, ‘the vast majority’ of whom “were never shown to...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/06/watching-you-for-your-own-good/
Congress is racing to address a problem toxicologists say probably doesn’t exist: the dangers to police and emergency medical technicians of incidental exposure to the powerful drug fentanyl. I...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/06/congress-chases-a-viral-scare-story-on-fentanyl-exposure/
Why is insulin so expensive? “People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps” Opioid litigation might be working to let the policy offenders Medical roundup is a post from Overlawyered -...
Over a dissent from two of its justices, the Illinois Supreme Court has struck down a law purporting to establish collectivized liability for drug overdoses: “Illinois state law allows family m...
Stop active-shooter drills in schools: “Preparing our children for profoundly unlikely events would be one thing if that preparation had no downside. But in this case, our efforts may exact a h...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/04/schools-and-childhood-roundup-3/
New EEOC chief data officer says machine learning algorithms may soon enable agency to predict, and deploy resources against, workplace bias before it happens “The BSO, in a statement, defende...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/01/discrimination-law-roundup-10/