Federal Judge Upholds Key School District Claims in Social Media Addiction Lawsuit November 8, 2024 Court Allows Negligence Allegations Against Tech Giants to Proceed On October 24, 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers entered her order on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss the School District and Local Government Entities’ Master Complaint In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Product Liability Litigation MDL No. 3047. In response to the […] Read More
Syngenta spent decades attempting to quiet health concerns about its profitable herbicide. November 7, 2024 by Evy Lewis, Investigate Midwest, Investigate Midwest October 23, 2024 In 2004, John Platt and his wife purchased 26 acres of untouched woodlands in Florida’s panhandle. As they transformed it into a horse ranch, they toppled trees and stripped the undergrowth with the herbicide paraquat. Through 2012, Platt sprayed the powerful weedkiller for multiple days […] Read More
Huffing Whippets: The Deadly High That’s Easy to Get October 23, 2024 In recent years, the recreational use of nitrous oxide, commonly referred to as “whippets,” has become a growing concern among medical professionals, parents, and law enforcement. Widely accessible and often marketed in colorful packaging, these small canisters of nitrous oxide are being used by teens and young adults to achieve a short-lived euphoric high, despite […] Read More