Law

A US jury in the state of Missouri has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $72m (£51m) in damages to the family of a woman who claimed her death was linked to use of the company’s baby talcum powder. Jackie Fox from Birmingham, Alabama died of ovarian cancer last year at the age of 62, having used J&J’s talc and Shower to Shower feminine hygiene products for decades. This is the first verdict in a string of allegations over cancer risks related to talc-based products.  About 1,000 cases have been filed in Missouri state court, and another 200 in New Jersey.

A Swedish doctor has been jailed for 10 years for kidnapping a woman and locking her up in a home-made bunker. The 38-year-old physician was planning to keep the woman as his girlfriend. According to the prosecution, Martin Trenneborg had spent several years designing and building a soundproof bunker. He methodically planned and executed the kidnapping and was only caught when he went to visit his victim’s apartment.   Deutsche Welle reports: The doctor met the woman in September for a date in Stockholm, when he drugged her with chocolate covered strawberries spiked with a sedative.

An Innocent Man Kept In Solidary Confinement For 43 Years Finally Released By Judicial Ruling

The story of Albert Woodfox proves beyond all doubt that the American criminal justice system (sic) is totally devoid of all justice, all integrity, and all humanity.

Judge James Dennis of the Federal Fifth Circuit Appeals Court stated: “For the vast majority of his life, Woodfox has spent nearly every waking hour in a cramped cell in crushing solitude without a valid conviction.”

Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders has been fighting for justice for over half a century, standing up to the establishment and fighting against segregation – he even got arrested for standing up for what he believes.   Bernie was once nabbed by the police while protesting the treatment of his fellow human beings over 50-years-ago when he was barely old enough to legally have an alcoholic drink.

Over 10,000 people were evacuated from several department stores in Moscow on Thursday due to a bomb threat, according to law enforcement agencies.  Police evacuated thousands of people from the GUM and TsUM department stores located in central Moscow. Tass.ru reports: According to law enforcement, people are evacuated from the GUM and TsUM department stores located in central Moscow, the Gagarinsky and Kuntsevo Plaza shopping malls, and all nine Auchan hypermarkets. In some stores the evacuation has been completed, and in some others it continues.