Timothy D. Brennan

3 days ago | chroni.cl | Timothy D. Brennan |James Smoliga |Rafael Walker |Michael C. Dorf

The best movie I’ve seen this year is Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a political drama about the state repression of the thousands of Iranians who took to the streets of Tehran and elsewhere in protest of the death of Mahsa Amini, murdered by religious police for not wearing a hijab.

Nov 4, 2024 | jacobin.com | Timothy D. Brennan

Like an electric shock, Domenico Losurdo’s Western Marxism: How It was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn can either open your eyes or cause a painful jolt. His indignant broadside against European and American Marxist philosophy does a bit of both with its jarring thesis that “actually existing socialism” is simply another name for anti-colonial liberation.

Sep 17, 2024 | mondaq.com | Matthew Insley-Pruitt |Timothy D. Brennan |David Nicholas

NPR featured Wolf Popper's case against GE Appliances maker Haier US Appliance Solutions for failing to disclose the harm of nitrogen dioxide exposure from its gas stoves. The suit asks a D.C. court to require GE Appliances to put nitrogen dioxide warnings on gas stoves sold in the District of Columbia.

Jul 12, 2024 | inquirer.com | Timothy D. Brennan

On the morning of Aug. 24, 1944, The Inquirer ran an article about a hometown hero. The dateline was vague — “Somewhere in France” — but the story was detailed. Army medic Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a 20-year-old Philadelphia native and Lincoln University premed student, had landed in D-Day’s first wave.

May 2, 2024 | mondaq.com | Timothy D. Brennan |Matthew Insley-Pruitt |Robert C. Finkel |David Nicholas

On April 10, 2024, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals partially reversed the District Court's dismissal of Wolf Popper's class action complaint against Labcorp. As the Fourth Circuit noted, the Patient Acknowledgment does not inform patients of the "patient list price" they will be charged if testing is not covered by insurance. The Fourth Circuit held that Labcorp's list price is "material to the reasonable patient" that must be disclosed to patients.