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Debris from a Norfolk Southern freight train lies scattered and burning along the tracks on Feb. 4, 2023, the day after it derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. – AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File

Norfolk Southern to pay $600M over train derailment in eastern Ohio

Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio.
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Pressure grows as Buttigieg says Boeing needs to cooperate with probes

With Boeing facing multiple government investigations, the company needs to make “a serious transformation” around its safety and manufacturing quality, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday.
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Magistrate judges honored at Dirksen courthouse exhibit

Federal magistrate judges shoulder burdens that otherwise would weigh down their life-tenured colleagues on the federal trial bench, according to Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the Northern District of Illinois.

Trial Notebook

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Judge rejects ‘specific patient rule’ in case over false claims, kickbacks

Two of Allergan’s former sales representatives accused the pharmaceutical manufacturer of violating the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by using a “speaker program” to give physicians illegal payments for prescribing two of its medications — Linzess and Viberzi — but the company insisted the complaint was defective because it didn’t “identify a specific patient to whom a doctor allegedly prescribed Linzess or Viberzi in exchange for a kickback.”

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