Morning Docket: 11.24.21
* Man exonerated after wrongfully serving 43 years will not be given any compensation for his time served. Now that's criminal. [NYT] * Living in Iowa? A judge just ruled that Medicaid refusing to help you with gender affirming care is unlawful. Woop Woop! [NBC News] * Company that's known for basically selling decaf cigarettes to children has to pay out $14.5M over a lawsuit that accused them of...marketing decaf cigarettes to children. Maybe now they won't advertise vapes on Cartoon Network! Woop Woop! [Axios] * White Supremacists will have to give up the green after being held liable for civil conspiracy to incite violence. Now if you excuse me, I am going to watch this on repeat for the rest of the day. Woop Woop! [ABA Journal] * CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens will be on the hook for helping to deepen the opioid crisis. Alarms should have went off when they started playing this whenever the pharmacy put you on hold, but I guess hindsight is 20/20. [NPR]
* Man exonerated after wrongfully serving 43 years will not be given any compensation for his time served. Now that’s criminal. [NYT]
* Living in Iowa? A judge just ruled that Medicaid refusing to help you with gender affirming care is unlawful. Woop Woop! [NBC News]
* Company that’s known for basically selling decaf cigarettes to children has to pay out $14.5M over a lawsuit that accused them of…marketing decaf cigarettes to children. Maybe now they won’t advertise vapes on Cartoon Network! Woop Woop! [Axios]
* White Supremacists will have to give up the green after being held liable for civil conspiracy to incite violence. Now if you excuse me, I am going to watch this on repeat for the rest of the day. Woop Woop! [ABA Journal]
* CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens will be on the hook for helping to deepen the opioid crisis. Alarms should have went off when they started playing this whenever the pharmacy put you on hold, but I guess hindsight is 20/20. [NPR]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
