President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed outrage to aides because there have been no violent mass street demonstrations against his statements and policies. He believes he needs violent demonstrations against him in order to declare a national state of emergency that would allow him to do anything he wants.   read more

Despite getting into trouble in Africa, U.S. drug manufacturers are still going overseas, with increasing frequency, to test new medicines and take advantage of poor economic conditions…and lax regulation legal responsibility should anything go wr...   read more

Justice Patience Roggensack of the Wisconsin Supreme Court did the right thing by judicial standards in 2009 when she recused herself from participating in a case involving an attorney, Donald Schott of Quarles & Brady, who had previously represen...   read more

Oklahoma is facing a crisis of drug abuse among its residents. The problem is so widespread that the annual cost of drug addiction is estimated to be $7.2 billion, in a state whose entire government budget is $6.7 billion.   Of the $7.2 billion ...   read more

Tight on money but loaded with cases to prosecute, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Kansas City has been using unpaid attorneys fresh out of law school to help out.   According to The Kansas City Star, U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips implemented the pr...   read more

Army Private Bradley Manning is facing the possibility of spending a long time in prison for embarrassing the U.S. government, while I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former right-hand man to Vice-President Dick Cheney, did no prison time even though ...   read more

Half a dozen lawsuits by organized labor health funds have been filed against pharmaceutical companies accusing the companies of inflating the price of prescription medication to be paid by the insurance plans.   The big pharmaceutical companies...   read more

In addition to drinking water contamination, earthquakes can now be added to the harmful consequences of the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, according to the Ohio state government. In fracking, energy companies use pow...   read more

The 2008 crash of the real estate bubble and the ensuing Great Recession have victimized not only homeowners, but their houses of worship as well, as banks foreclose on churches in record numbers. As AllGov previously reported, foreclosures agains...   read more

The agency in charge of Medicare—and also of implementing the Affordable Care Act—has suffered from a revolving door at the top, leading to bipartisan criticism. Since its birth in 1977, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has had...   read more

Women in Virginia, like those in seven other states, will be required to undergo an ultrasound procedure as a condition for having an abortion under a new law signed by Republican Governor Bob McDonnell. An earlier version of the bill created a na...   read more

Although Bank of America (BoA), along with other big banks like Wells Fargo, Citibank, Ally/GMAC and JPMorgan Chase, recently reached a very favorable settlement of potential criminal fraud charges related to their mortgage lending practices, two ...   read more

A California journalist has won his fight with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to get the Department of Justice to release documents that may show the FBI, although a government entity, was helping advance Ronald Reagan’s political caree...   read more

The business of law school rankings can be downright unlawful, according to two professors at Emory University.   In their research paper (“Law Deans in Jail”), Morgan Cloud and George Shepherd accuse some law schools and their deans of submitti...   read more

The expert in charge of investigating water contamination at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina has accused the military and a federal agency of censoring a new report on the problem, after they claimed to have done so for reasons of national security...   read more

The good news with respect to the contents of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluids is that about 99% consists of water. The bad news is that the remaining 1% includes highly toxic chemicals that can cause harm even in tiny amounts. The subject h...   read more

In the course of allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to contractors during the Iraq war, the Department of Defense gave $20 million to a company that owed $4 million in back taxes.   Senators Tom Carper (D-Delaware) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla...   read more