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Delaware to get $68.9 million from opioid settlement

Sam Haut Headlines, Government

Delaware is set to receive $68.9 billion out of a $17.3 billion settlement from drug makers Teva and Allergan and pharmacies CVS and Walgreens. The money will be spread out over the next 15 years, according to a press release by the Delaware Department of Justice. The defendants will start releasing funds to a national administrator later this summer, with …

Still work to do, say marijuana advocacy groups

Sam Haut Government, Headlines

Marijuana advocacy groups who worked to help legalize marijuana in Delaware say there is still work to do. That includes urging Attorney General Kathy Jennings to drop all pending cannabis offenses, making sure that testing positive for pot won’t get someone’s parole or probation revoked, allowing marijuana to be grown at home and bird-dogging the process and progress of regulations …

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TurboTax settlement gives 14k Delawareans $430,000

Sam Haut Government, Headlines

The settlement of a class action lawsuit against Intuit, the owner of TurboTax, will give 14,187 Delawareans a total of about $430,000. Across the country, approximately 4.4 million people will receive checks in the mail from the settlement involving every state and the District of Columbia.  Those eligible for money will be contacted by email from the fund administrator Rust …

TSD Review Aug 11

Town Square LIVE Weekly Review – August 11, 2022

Sonja Frey Town Square Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: COMMUNITY Statewide youth mountain biking league cranks up Delaware to spend $18 million on EV chargers 10,000-mile walk includes stop in Delaware Claymont eyed for new park with marina, amphitheater North Wilmington Branch Library set for major upgrade BUSINESS If you’re looking for a rental home, …

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AG Jennings announces abortion hotline

Charles Megginson Government, Headlines

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision that gave individual states the power to regulate abortion, Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings on Monday announced a hotline Delawareans and out-of-staters can call to answer questions about abortion access in the First State. Those with questions about abortion access can call (302) 992-8096 or toll-free at (877) 312-2366. A …

Seaford loses fetal tissue case

DOJ wins challenge to Seaford ‘fetal tissue’ law

Staff Writer Government, Headlines

  A Delaware court has overturned a Seaford law that would have required anyone who had an abortion or miscarriage to pay to bury or cremate the fetal tissue. Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled Wednesday morning that Seaford, as a junior sovereign, cannot enact a law that conflicts directly with law established by …

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Purdue Pharma agrees to new opioid settlement after Delaware, other states appeal

Charles Megginson Government, Headlines, Health

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family could pay up to $6 billion for the OxyContin maker’s role in the deadly opioid epidemic, Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Thursday. If approved, Delaware would receive nearly $50 million under the terms of the tentative settlement that includes almost all U.S. states and thousands of local governments. Jennings and eight other attorneys general …

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1,500 Delaware borrowers to get loans forgiven, restitution in Navient settlement

Betsy Price Education, Headlines

Navient has agreed to a nearly $1.9 billion settlement of a suit that charged it used unfair, predatory practices.   More than 1,500 state residents who borrowed money from student loan provider Navient will get a part of Delaware’s $5.34 million share of a settlement in a suit charging the company used unfair, deceptive and predatory practices. Of those, 145 …

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Former Wilmington politician convicted for official misconduct

Betsy Price Government, Headlines

  Theopalis Gregory, former president of the Wilmington City Council, was convicted Monday of official misconduct. Gregory had been indicted in September 2019 after getting $20,000 from a city grant application for a defunct organization he had founded. Attorney General Kathy Jennings said in a press released Monday that Deputy Attorney General David Skoranski of the Division of Civil Rights …

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McGuiness corruption trial set for May 2022

Charles Megginson Government, Headlines

Delaware State Auditor Kathy McGuiness will face trial on corruption charges in May 2022.  A court order establishing the trial date was issued following a private scheduling conference with McGuiness’ legal team, prosecutors and Superior Court Judge William Carpenter.  McGuiness in October was charged with two felonies and multiple misdemeanors alleging conflict of interest, felony theft, non-compliance with procurement law, …