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Free Robot Lawyer Created by 19-Year-Old Programmer Is Saving People A Lot of Money in Legal Fees
British programmer Joshua Browder is helping people save a lot of money on legal fees with his latest project – the world’s first robot lawyer. The 19-year-old developed a free service that allows users to ask any kind of legal question and receive relevant answers autogenerated by bots. Browder first...
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Global Obstacles for Tenofovir Tests
Tests intended to determine whether the drug tenofovir can prevent HIV from entering the body have hit a wave of global opposition, the Washington Post reports. Trials in Cambodia, have all been cancelled because of protests. The interesting thing, as the article makes clear, is that the tests might very well...
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Between Suboxone And a Hard Place
Several months ago I posted an item asking for readers to give me the scoop on suboxone, a relatively new drug that is used to treat opioid dependence. A lot of people get to this blog because they Google the word suboxone, but I was not aware of any legal...
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More on Suboxone
Every day this blog gets hits from people interested in Suboxone, which is a drug made from buprenorphine and naloxone that is used to treat opioid dependence. It's ridiculous in a way, because I've previously only posted *one* item on Suboxone and it was nothing but a link to a...
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The Top 10 (plus one) Drug Law Stories of 2007
Another year is wrapping up and so it is once again time to consider the most interesting drug law stories of the last 365 days. Keep in mind that I'm a California oriented blogger and my interests have to do primarily with issues that are either in criminal law or...
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“A Recurring, Drug-Induced Nightmare”: The Congressional Hearings on MLB Steroids
The New York Times' Bats blog, written by Alan Schwartz, has been live blogging from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's hearing on Major League Baseball steroid use today. (Above: Former Senator George Mitchell, author of the "Mitchell Report" on MLB steroids, at today's hearing. Photo by...
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Three ex-Tepco executives to be indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster
Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. will be indicted Monday for the allegedly failing to take measures to prevent the tsunami-triggered disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a lawyer in charge of the case said Friday. The three, who will face charges of professional negligence resulting...
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Updates on the Steroids Prosecutions
As the American steroids prosecutions drag on, they've claimed another victim: former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield has pleaded guilty to "lying to federal agents about his use of performance-enhancing drugs," the San Jose Mercury News reports. Under the plea deal, he faces up to six months in prison. (Above:...
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Obama’s Climate Change Policy Gets a Hiccup from the Supreme Court
Last week, President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan took a back seat as the US Supreme Court decided to delay implementation of the policy. This plan was supposed to be the key to President Obama’s policy of climate change. His administration had already pledged to cut down greenhouse gas emissions...
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Lawsuit Filed Against State Of Connecticut For Ebola Confinement
This week law students working with Yale's Legal Department plan to file a class action lawsuit in Federal District court against Governor Malloy of Connecticut and the state's present and former health commissioners on behalf of residents who are were affected by the State's Ebola quantitative policies, which affected two...
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