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A Harvard Law School lawsuit filed on behalf of animal welfare organizations accuses the United States Department of Agriculture of offloading the burden of inspecting animal research sites to a private third party, resulting in a system that the lawsuit describes as largely self-policing and less rigorous.

Hundreds of people turned up to show solidarity with three grad students suing the university over a professor’s alleged misconduct, while faculty who had previously spoken in the professor’s favor walk back their support.

Attorneys for the family seek compensation for the company’s sale of cells cloned from tissue removed without consent by doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital 70 years ago.

A complaint lodged by researchers in France prompts two petitions supporting Bik’s whistleblowing work.

Nine former students and faculty members who sued the institution in 2017 over its handling of sexual harassment claims will contribute a portion of the settlement to those whose careers suffered as a result.

The answer has broad implications for paleontology research—and maybe for museum collections, too.

The University of Southern California reaches a settlement with the University of California, San Diego, over snatching staff, data, and funding in 2015.

The unapproved crop is resistant to glyphosate in the weedkiller Roundup, but doesn’t seem to have entered the food supply.

The decision may facilitate the agency cracking down more effectively on the unproven interventions these companies sell.

In determining that the illnesses came about from exposure to glyphosate in Roundup, a California jury delivers the biggest loss so far to the herbicide manufacturer in lawsuits about the product.

Katrina Miranda, seeking class-action status, alleges that women professors are paid less and passed over for promotions and resources.

Seven women are suing the university over alleged assault, harassment, and discrimination by three prominent scientists.

As the American Chemical Society and Elsevier move litigation forward, other academic publishers have opted to collaborate with the academic network platform instead.

A judge throws out several of researcher Beverly Emerson’s claims, but the case proceeds.

A third case against the biomedical institute will be heard in court.

A new study ignites debate on the cause of pistachio bushy top syndrome, a disease that has crippled farms in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Flint residents and activists wrote a letter in May calling out Marc Edwards for hurting their community. He says it’s defamation.

Genetics pioneer Craig Venter is not named as a defendant, but the company he founded alleges that he stole trade secrets.

The suit claims that Rational Vaccines, the company of recently deceased researcher William Halford, violated US and international laws when it carried out the procedure.