Why do vaccine manufacturers have liability protection? Because in the 1980s, the four vaccine manufacturers got together and threatened to stop making vaccines unless the lawsuits stopped. Congress obliged and we have the system we have today where, if you are vaccine injured, getting the compensation you deserve can be a hit or miss proposition. For the current COVID vaccines, in particular, it... 

WhatsApp is threatening users who violate its rules with lawsuits, even if the only evidence of “rule-breaking” exists outside of the Facebook-owned messaging app and the only judge is an AI. “WhatsApp will take legal action against those we determine are engaged in or assisting others in abuse… even if that determination is based on information solely available to us off our platform,”... 

The Sackler Jews—responsible for the Opioid addiction crisis which has killed over half a million people in America—have been forced to pay out $275 million in a “settlement” in the third of 1,600 lawsuits against them. The agreement, negotiated with the state of Oklahoma, will allow the Sackler company, Purdue Pharmacy, which makes OxyContin, to avoid a televised courtroom trial. The payment... 

The self-described “legal arm of the pro-Israel community” Jewish lobby has issued “cease and desist” legal threats against Google, Twitter, and Yahoo, demanding that they censor content critical of the Jews’ “Holocaust” narrative—or face legal action. According to a press release issued by the New York-based Lawfare Project—which on its website claims to be the “Legal Arm of the... 

Low-income fast-food employees and their supporters in the United States held rallies in at least 30 cities on Tuesday against “wage-theft” by McDonalds and other major fast-food restaurants. American fast-food workers, who’ve been pushing for living wages of around $15 an hour since late 2012, are now shifting their attention to the issue of wage theft by the US restaurant industry. Protesters... 

Protestors in Detroit last month objected to plans to cut pension benefits of city workers and retirees. The federal judge overseeing Detroit’s bankruptcy case says he will hold a hearing Wednesday to take up a request by the city’s emergency manager to put on hold state lawsuits challenging the bankruptcy filing. The new development comes as the legal wrangling over the bankruptcy of the city... 

Pro-Palestinian activists are launching a new round of anti-Israel lawsuits in European courts. The lawsuits, which exploit the legal principle of universal jurisdiction, are being used to harass current and former Israeli political and military leaders, with the twin aims of tying Israel’s hands against Palestinian terror and delegitimizing the Jewish state. On June 23, two Belgian lawyers... 

At least 11 US states say they plan to launch a legal battle against President Barack Obama’s sweeping reforms of the healthcare system in the United States. The House of Representatives passed the president’s healthcare bill on Sunday. The Republican-controlled states say they will not accept the introduction of mandatory basic health insurance. They argue that it goes against the US...