The 10th Circuit has upheld a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of an Oklahoma ballot initiative that banned the practice of Sharia law, the religious law of Islam. A trial judge granted the injunction in a constitutional challenge brought two days after the state’s voters approved the initiative last November.

The 10th Circuit has upheld a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of an Oklahoma ballot initiative that banned the practice of Sharia law, the religious law of Islam. A trial judge granted the injunction in a constitutional challenge brought two days after the state’s voters approved the initiative last November.

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has restored the $28 million in punitive damages a jury awarded to a plaintiff who said drug makers Wyeth and Pharmacia & Upjohn failed to warn her doctor of the risks of breast cancer from using hormonal drugs. The trial judge had reduced the award to $1 million.

A Philadelphia trial judge overseeing mass tort litigation involving the digestive drug Reglan has denied a bid by generic manufacturers to dismiss claims against them in roughly 2,000 lawsuits on the basis of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

A Philadelphia trial judge overseeing mass tort litigation involving the digestive drug Reglan has denied a bid by generic manufacturers to dismiss claims against them in roughly 2,000 lawsuits on the basis of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.