Attorney Lawrance A. Bohm on Record $167,000,000 Hostile Work Environment Case

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

In February 2012, a jury returned a verdict of $167,730,488.00 in Chopourian v. Catholic Healthcare West (2012, United States District Court, Eastern District of California). This case is believed to be the largest single-plaintiff employment verdict in United States history. Plaintiff, Ani Chopourian, was terminated from her position as a surgical physicians’ assistant in the […]

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DEA Agent Speaks Out: We Were Told Not to Enforce Drug Laws In Rich Communities

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

DEA Agent Speaks Out: We Were Told Not to Enforce Drug Laws In Rich Communities http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dea-agent-drug-laws-intentionally-rich-communities/#0WfUQRkiwdf7ivtq.99 “‘You know, if we go out there and start messing with those folks, they know judges, they know lawyers, they know politicians. You start locking their kids up; somebody’s going to jerk our chain.’ He said, ‘they’re going to […]

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Injured patients can’t get their painkillers; an unexpected consequence of pill mill crackdown

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Injured patients can’t get their painkillers; an unexpected consequence of pill mill crackdown http://www.wptv.com/money/consumer/injured-patients-cant-get-their-painkillers-an-unexpected-consequence-of-pill-mill-crackdown WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The pill mill crackdown is cutting overdose deaths, but it’s also having unintended consequences for patients in pain. Injured patients tell the Consumer Watchdog they can’t get their medication because pharmacy after pharmacy turned them away. […]

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Patients have a “diminished expectation of privacy” about their information in the PMP databases

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

Equivalent to doxing your doc? California to decide limits of access to prescription database http://medcitynews.com/2015/04/equivalent-doctor-doxing-california-decide-limits-access-prescription-database/ The case against Dr. Alwin Lewis started with a patient’s complaint about his unorthodox diet plan. But it landed at the California Supreme Court with a much broader issue at stake: Whether regulators should have unrestricted access to a state […]

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Is this the DEA just being irresponsible ?

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

Judge: Feds owe trucking company nothing over DEA informant murder (update) http://blog.chron.com/narcoconfidential/2015/04/judge-feds-owe-trucking-company-nothing-over-dea-informant-murder/#17365101=0 A Houston-based federal judge ruled that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration does not owe the owner of a small Texas trucking company anything, not even the cost of repairing the bullet holes to a tractor-trailer truck that the agency used without his permission […]

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