N.C. attorney general argues for fair resentencing for low-level crack cocaine offenses North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is urging the Supreme Court to ensure people serving harsh sentences for low-level crack cocaine offenses can seek fair resentencing. (Source: Campaign website) By WBTV Web Staff | February 24, 2021 at 1:05 PM EST - Updated February 24 at 1:05 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is urging the Supreme Court to ensure people serving harsh sentences for low-level crack cocaine offenses can seek fair resentencing.
This would happen under the First Step Act, a landmark criminal justice reform legislation that Congress passed in 2018.
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Minnesota is currently among the minority of states without a formal price gouging law. However, on March 20, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz prohibited price gouging during the state of emergency via Executive Order 20-10. Now, on February 10, 2021, the Minnesota state legislature introduced a bill that would provide “[d]uring an abnormal market disruption a person is prohibited from selling or offering to sell an essential consumer good or service for an amount that represents an unconscionably excessive price.” An unconscionably excessive price is defined in the legislation to mean “1) the amount charged represents a gross disparity between the price of the good or service and (i) the price th
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HCA Healthcare completed its $1.5-billion acquisition of western North Carolina s Mission Health in 2019, but the nonprofit sale to a for-profit entity hasn t been without scrutiny. Following reports from the local community of charity care that s difficult for patients to understand and declines in service, a slew of physician departures is now turning heads.
Dogwood Health Trust a foundation formed with proceeds from the sale to monitor HCA s compliance with obligations of the deal and to invest in the health and well-being of North Carolinians hasn t notified HCA of any issues of noncompliance to date. But the recent or impending loss of more than a dozen physicians has caught the attention of the North Carolina Attorney General s Office as well as the independent monitor put in place to advise Dogwood Health Trust.
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Feb 4 (Reuters) - McKinsey & Co, the consulting firm, has agreed to pay $573 million to resolve investigations by most U.S. states over its alleged role in “turbocharging” sales of opioids such as OxyContin, fueling a nationwide epidemic.
Most money from the settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia and five territories will go toward opioid treatment and prevention.
McKinsey did not admit liability or wrongdoing, and said it had also settled with two additional states, boosting its payout to nearly $600 million.
The firm must also turn over tens of thousands of internal documents concerning its work for drugmakers including Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the wealthy Sackler family and is the drugmaker most closely associated with the epidemic.