by Monty Self | Oct 26, 2020 | Opinion
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Oct. 21 it had reached an $8 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been at the center of the nation’s opioid crisis for decades. The company pleaded guilty to paying doctors to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 27, 2015 | News
A lawsuit was filed in late September by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against the city of Des Plaines, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, following the city’s refusal to allow a vacant office building to be used as a mosque. The DOJ’s basis for the suit...
by Richard Yeakley | Mar 17, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Justice Department has filed suit against California prison officials on behalf of a Sikh inmate who says his religious freedom was violated when officials punished him for not cutting his beard. Sukhjinder Basra, incarcerated at the California Men’s Colony...
by Adelle M. Banks | Sep 24, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious minorities—especially Muslims—figure prominently in religious freedom investigations by the Justice Department, a new report shows. “Jewish synagogues and schools, African-American churches, and, increasingly, Muslim mosques and schools are...