Reuters Report: How Secrecy in Courts Stymies Safety Regulators January 17, 2020 By Mike Spector, Jaimi Dowdell and Benjamin Lesser LEBANON, Ohio — Something wasn’t right with the Rhino. Reports started trickling in to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)...
Reuters Report: How Plaintiff Lawyers Help Corporate America Keep Its Secrets November 8, 2019 By Jaimi Dowdell and Benjamin Lesser Paula Lawlor was sifting through piles of internal General Motors Co. documents in a hotel room outside of Los Angeles...
Reuters: How Court Lets Merck Hide Baldness Drug Propecia’s Risks September 12, 2019 By Dan Levine By the time Kelly Pfaff got home from driving her son to school that morning, it was too late. Her...
Reuters Report: How Judges’ Secrecy Has Added to Toll of Opioids and Other Products June 25, 2019 By Benjamin Lesser, Dan Levine, Lisa Girion and Jaimi Dowdell WELCH, West Virginia —The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on greedy...