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Lance Armstrong

Hit Them Where it Hurts: A New Approach for Cleaning up Professional Athletics

On June 25, 2014 By Reed Nixon

In April 2013 the US Justice Department joined a whistleblower action against Lance Armstrong in the District Court of Washington, D.C. The lawsuit alleges that by using performance enhancing drugs to climb to the pinnacle of cycling Armstrong violated his contract with the U.S. Postal Service – his title sponsor during six of his seven [...]

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The Cost of Kickbacks

On January 26, 2010 By JETLaw

To the drug companies that are awarding kickbacks for prescribing or otherwise recommending their drugs, I have two words: stop it!

I respect the time, effort, and money that pharmaceutical companies devote to drug research and development, and advertising the drugs that are ultimately developed is an inevitable part of the research and development [...]

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