Tag: Courts

Pfizer has a long history of paying out vast sums in out-of-court settlements to avoid prosecution on criminal charges resulting from the fraudulent promotion and injury and death arising from use of its products.

Charges against two lockdown protestors have been dropped – but the protestors may insist on going to court anyway so that the whole Covid lockdown debacle can be properly reviewed in a court of law.

Although his "blood still boils" at the thought of lockdowns, Donald Boudreaux says that to go down the road of holding lockdown zealots personally liable for their policies takes us to a dangerous place.

More than two and a half years since Boris Johnson confined the nation to its homes, the Guardian has finally decided it's time to run some criticism of it.

The result of deploying judicial review as a weapon of political struggle, as has happened in recent decades, was always going to be that the courts would end up having their wings clipped.

Even those who support abortion should recognise that Roe v Wade was a poor legal decision and the US Supreme Court would be right to take the matter away from unelected judges and return it to the democratic process.

India's Supreme Court has ruled that owing to "bodily integrity and personal autonomy" and because the Covid vaccines don't prevent transmission, no individual can be forced to get vaccinated.