Thousands of #migrants subjected to the policy will be allowed to live & work in the #UnitedStates, at least temporarily. If they win #asylum, they could become #citizens.
Aug 16 (Reuters) - Nine U.S. states are objecting to a proposed $13.5 million settlement between Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N) and a class of insulin buyers over claims that it inflated the drug's price, saying the drugmaker is wrongly trying to use the deal to shield itself from future lawsuits by states.
The links between #capitalism and #SettlerColonialism are many centuries old, yet you keep looking away as corporations make a profit while soldiers loot houses in #Gaza and lobbyists start planning new #settlement construction there. This destruction was never about Hamas.
#Israel is a wealthy country today and money is fungible.
For way too long U.S. economic and #military aid has allowed #Netanyahu to have his cake and eat it too — to fund the insane #settlement project, and maintain an advanced military,
While Israel got U.S. aid in one hand, the budget of its Ministry of Defense paid to build roads for #settlers with the other hand. USA's wallet, indirectly, was the slush fund for Netanyahu’s politics.
“It is about governments paying the bills that have been long past due.”
An out-of-court settlement has been reached in the 1850 Robinson Huron Treaty annuities litigation.
The proposed settlement will see $10 billion covering past annuities paid to the 21 Robinson Huron First Nations in northern Ontario. The federal and provincial governments will split the bill evenly.
DataBreaches looks for provisions in settlements that require improved data security. Some settlements do not seem to include much provision for that. And some keep those provisions confidential. In these two cases, one kept it confidential but the other one spelled out changes.
Would love to see some lawyers go through all the settlements involving patient data and see how much improvement in data protection is being written into settlements to reduce risk of future attacks.
States cry foul at Lilly's $13.5 mln insulin class action settlement (www.reuters.com)
Aug 16 (Reuters) - Nine U.S. states are objecting to a proposed $13.5 million settlement between Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N) and a class of insulin buyers over claims that it inflated the drug's price, saying the drugmaker is wrongly trying to use the deal to shield itself from future lawsuits by states.