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Chicago Transit Authority “warming” buses for migrants are parked in the 800 block of South Desplaines Street Jan. 11 in Chicago. As temperatures hover well below freezing, dozens of asylum-seekers are also staying in the city library until the bitter cold lifts. But the city’s plans for offering immediate shelter to the growing number of migrants remain murky. – AP Photo/Erin Hooley

Freezing cold upsets Chicago’s struggle to house migrants

As temperatures hover below freezing in Chicago, dozens of asylum-seekers are staying in the lower level of a library until the bitter cold gripping much of the country lifts.
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Johnson & Johnson to pay almost $150M over opioid crisis

The Washington state attorney general announced a $149.5 million settlement Wednesday with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company over its role in the opioid addiction crisis.
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O’Connor impressed, inspired Chicago judges, legal leaders

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor continued to earn admiration and respect after stepping down from the high court 17 years ago, with many local leaders remembering encounters with her as she continued to advocate for civics education and the judiciary.

Trial Notebook

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Court weighs informed consent on alternative treatment options

With no local precedent on an important aspect of informed consent in a malpractice case against an emergency medicine physician, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals looked at “the primary cases” from other jurisdictions on “the duty to inform the patient of alternative treatment options.”

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