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The Growing Litigation Threat to Starbucks

Jan 15, 2025 | lawstreetmedia.com | John Jenkins

FOIAengine Breaks Down Court Cases, NLRB Actions, and Recent FOIA RequestsOn Brian Niccol’s first day four months ago as the new CEO of Starbucks, he sent out a memo to the coffee chain’s 200,000 employees. Starbucks had seen four CEOs in as many years. Labor strife was rampant. Sales were slumping. The stock (NASD: SBUX) was getting hammered. So Niccol had a tall order, no froth.
More Questions About Obesity Drug Makers

Jan 8, 2025 | lawstreetmedia.com | John Jenkins

FOIAengine: How Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Others Use FOIAWelcome to 2025. At PoliScio Analytics, we logged 45,720 federal FOIA requests into our FOIAenginedatabase during the past 12 months. But one subject, more than most others, dominated in hundreds of requests from hedge funds, pharmaceutical companies, and the news media: GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. This week, we’re taking a closer look at what some of those GLP-1 requesters wanted to know during the past year.
Media Seeks Kennedy’s Recent FDA Contacts

Dec 11, 2024 | lawstreetmedia.com | John Jenkins

FOIAengine: HHS Designee Is Target After Calling FDA “Corrupt”Freedom of Information Act requests from the news media about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hit the Food and Drug Administration almost immediately after President-elect Trump announced his choice of Kennedy to lead the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services.
The Syrian crucible

Dec 10, 2024 | newstatesman.com | John Jenkins

Walking through the burned-out shell of the British embassy in Libya in the autumn of 2011, I was asked by the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen what I thought the future would hold for Muammar al-Gaddafi’s Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad. I said I didn’t see how he could survive the upsurge of popular rage, sparked by the brutal torture and murder of civilian protesters – including 15 young boys – by his security forces in the southern town of Daraa. I was wrong about the timing.
More Danger for an Indian Tycoon

Nov 30, 2024 | lawstreetmedia.com | John Jenkins

FOIAengine: Requests Signaled Trouble for Guatam AdaniGuatam Adani, India’s most powerful tycoon and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, knows what it’s like to stare death in the face and survive. Danger has a knack for finding him. But each time – a 1998 kidnapping at gunpoint; the 2008 terrorist attacks at Mumbai’s iconic Taj Palace Hotel that killed 167 – Adani somehow manages to cheat fate.
More Danger for an Indian Tycoon

Nov 26, 2024 | lawstreetmedia.com | John Jenkins

FOIAengine: Requests Signaled Trouble for Guatam AdaniGuatam Adani, India’s most powerful tycoon and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, knows what it’s like to stare death in the face and survive. Danger has a knack for finding him. But each time – a 1998 kidnapping at gunpoint; the 2008 terrorist attacks at Mumbai’s iconic Taj Palace Hotel that killed 167 – Adani somehow manages to cheat fate.
Transfer skills: The independent expert’s role in a Part VII transfer

Nov 8, 2024 | theactuary.com | Richard Preston |John Jenkins

Back in October 2023, Phoenix completed its largest ever Part VII transfer of life insurance business, involving four life companies, more than nine million policies and £190bn of assets. It required extensive involvement from both Phoenix and the independent expert, John Jenkins of Milliman, over several years. A Part VII transfer is the transfer of insurance business under Part VII of the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and requires court approval.
The Agony Around Ecstasy

Nov 5, 2024 | lawstreetmedia.com | John Jenkins

With 153 clinical trials to assess whether the party drug known as Ecstasy can help patients suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, optimism was high earlier this summer among investors in numerous start-ups hoping to hit it big in the medical psychedelic market.
DNC’s Opposition Research Dragnet

Oct 2, 2024 | lawstreetmedia.com | John Jenkins

The Democratic National Committee’s latest Freedom of Information Act requests reveal an expanded effort to dig up details about possible federal investigations into various companies associated with Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio).
The Glomar Hustle

Sep 11, 2024 | lawstreetmedia.com | John Jenkins

By John A. JenkinsWe’re taking a look this week at a frequently used Freedom of Information Act exemption that isn’t mentioned anywhere in the statutory language. It’s known as “Glomar” among the federal agencies that invoke it. Glomar, a euphemism for “neither confirm nor deny (NCND),” shows up frequently in PoliScio Analytics’competitive-intelligence database FOIAengine, which tracks FOIA requests in as close to real-time as their availability allows.