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A $4.7 billion jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson in July helped spark the company’s biggest annual share loss in a decade, spotlighting the potential cost of alleged health risks from its popular baby powder. But investors may have overreacted ...

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court decided 40 years ago that one state could be sued in another state’s courts without its consent. On Wednesday, the justices pondered whether their predecessors had made a mistake. An hour-long argument featuring two of ...

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WASHINGTON – Top Senate Republicans emerged Wednesday from meetings with attorney general nominee William Barr insisting that if confirmed, he would not hinder Robert Mueller III’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s Russia ties, despite previous statements blasting the probe for ...

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WASHINGTON – Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has told people close to him that he expects to depart the Justice Department if a new attorney general is confirmed, though there are no concrete plans in place or a timeline for ...

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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — A promoter of the original 1969 Woodstock concert is planning a 50th anniversary festival. Michael Lang says Wednesday that “Woodstock 50” is planned Aug. 16-18 in Watkins Glen, New York, about 115 miles (185 kilometers) ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has reportedly dismissed part of Ashley Judd’s lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein. Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of United States District Court in Los Angeles ruled Wednesday that the actress’ sexual harassment claim does not ...

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A lawsuit against New York state over a law that prohibits merchants from charging different prices to retail and credit customers has apparently been settled. The plaintiffs and state officials have reached an agreement to dismiss the case, pending the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to review a decision that derailed impeachment trials for West Virginia Supreme Court justices. House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw said the intent of Tuesday’s filing was not to seek ...

In February 2010, Cristian Rodriguez showed up at a Manhattan hotel expecting to attend a business meeting of sorts. An information technology expert living in Colombia, he had previously set up an encrypted communications system for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, ...

Employee attorney Heidi Burakiewicz hoped the recent lawsuit against the Trump administration over the partial government shutdown would move quickly; after all, the court already ruled on the underlying issue. The Dec. 31 lawsuit, filed by a federal employee’s union, ...

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WASHINGTON – Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued his first Supreme Court opinion Tuesday, an easy lift for an experienced judge writing for unanimous colleagues in a noncontroversial case. It involved one company suing another about who decides whether certain disputes should ...

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Joey Rappa has spent decades on the fringes of Hollywood. He was a production associate on “The Nutty Professor’’ and an assistant to Keanu Reeves. Recently he played an unlikely bit part — front man for a company seeking to ...

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