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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks on Wednesday in Olympia, Washington. He announced a $149.5 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company over its role in fueling the opioid addiction crisis. – AP Photo/Manuel Valdes

Johnson & Johnson to pay almost $150M over opioid crisis

The Washington state attorney general announced a $149.5 million settlement Wednesday with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company over its role in the opioid addiction crisis.
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Supreme Court allows feds to cut razor wire at US-Mexico border

A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to resume cutting for now razor wire that Texas installed along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border that is at the center of an escalating standoff between the Biden administration and the state over immigration enforcement.
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FTX founder convicted of defrauding crypto customers

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry — a journey that included his testimony before Congress, a Super Bowl advertisement and dreams of a future run for president — hit rock bottom Thursday when a New York jury convicted the son of Stanford law professors of fraud for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors.

Trial Notebook

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Court weighs informed consent on alternative treatment options

With no local precedent on an important aspect of informed consent in a malpractice case against an emergency medicine physician, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals looked at “the primary cases” from other jurisdictions on “the duty to inform the patient of alternative treatment options.”

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