Exoneration
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Morning Docket
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]
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