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Processed food concerns: Local researcher creates free database to find out what we’re really eating

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Juul and Its Courtroom Foes Stare Down FDA Ban as Youth Marketing Trial Nears

“There is a real question about Juul’s ability to contribute much to a settlement if there’s a strong possibility its income is substantially curtailed,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of Public Health Advocacy Institute and a lecturer at the Northeastern University School of Law. 
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Fact Check-Fact check – 1973 Roe v. Wade decision did not center on whether plaintiff had been raped

“There is no mention of rape in the lower court decision, except to the extent that it is quoting the text of the Texas law,” Martha Davis, Professor of Law, scholar in constitutional law and human rights advocacy at Northeastern University told Reuters.
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There’s another War Between the States coming over abortion

“It’s one thing to have states fighting with each other about a tax on interstate cargo or mudflaps on trucks,” said Wendy Parmet, a professor of law and public policy at the Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.
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Can you sue police if your Miranda rights are violated? In Vega v. Tekoh, Supreme Court says no

Daniel Medwed: The whole concept of the Miranda warnings derives from a 1966 case, Miranda v. Arizona, in which the Supreme Court held that prior to what’s called a custodial interrogation, the police must provide suspects with certain warnings.
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As the U.S. becomes more politically polarized, so does corporate leadership, paper says

Executives are also under more political scrutiny from consumers and employees, said Costas Panagopoulos at Northeastern University. 
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How to prevent cops from killing: Weaken unions and make police pay for misconduct

How can police departments stop officers from unjustly killing civilians? That’s the question law professor Deborah Ramirez at Northeastern University in Boston has been working on for years.
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Garland signals brewing battle with GOP-led states over access to abortion pills

Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University, said it’s unclear “whether the FDA can preempt a state’s prohibition” on mifepristone.
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Birth control restrictions could follow abortion bans, experts say

“The states that are trying to limit abortion from the moment of conception — not even from the moment of pregnancy, as the medical profession would define it — could well try to challenge Plan B, emergency contraception, potentially even IUDs,” said Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern […]
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FIGHT OVER ABORTION PILLS TAKES SHAPE IN POST-ROE AMERICA

Amid the Biden administration’s vows to protect the right to medication abortion, it’s unclear “whether the FDA can preempt a state’s prohibition” on mifepristone, Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law told NBC, noting that there isn’t a Supreme Court decision on the matter and, “even if we did, we have […]
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Supreme Court’s Roe Ruling Tees Up Fight Over Abortion Pills

State law, however, controls “the practice of medicine,” meaning states could prohibit prescribers from offering the drug, said Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.
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Pence leans in on abortion, as Trump, other potential 2024 candidates are more cautious

GOP candidates “have to balance, you know, the wishes of their own constituencies, which often conflict with what the national Republican constituencies might prefer,” said Costas Panagopoulos, chair of the political science department at Northeastern University, who noted that polling shows most Americans opposed overturning Roe.