The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated Monday almost 6,000 products liability lawsuits filed against 3M in relation to a surgical device that was meant to keep patients warm but instead allegedly caused them to develop infections. 3M’s Bair Hugger device is a convective patient-warming device that is used during surgery to [...]
Apple reached a settlement Tuesday to end a copyright lawsuit it initiated against Florida startup Corellium LLC for Corellium’s “virtual” version of the iPhone used for research to detect potential bugs. Corellium allows users to run software-only virtualizations of iOS, which means that researchers can test iPhone software on computers instead of iPhone devices. This [...]
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit unanimously upheld Wednesday a lower court’s decision to reject biometric software company Onfido Inc.’s attempt to send facial data privacy claims to arbitration. The plaintiff in the case registered his identity to become a verified user on the application OfferUp, an online [...]
Amazon disclosed Friday that it had been fined €746 million by the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) because Amazon’s processing of personal data did not comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR regulates data protection and privacy in the EU and the European Economic Area. It was passed in [...]
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has signed an anti-camping ordinance, which effectively makes homelessness illegal in the city. According to a report released by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, 66,436 people in Los Angeles County experienced homelessness in 2020. This has resulted in encampments that spread over parks and entire blocks, which include furniture [...]
Pope Francis said Monday during the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit that the existence of hunger in a world that produces enough food for everyone is “a crime that violates basic human rights.” Earlier in July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic “pushed” an additional 124 million people into extreme [...]
Paul Hodgkins of Tampa, Florida became the first felon Monday to be sentenced for his role in the storming of the US Capitol on January 6. He was sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution for building damage. On January 6, Hodgkins entered the Senate Chamber, where he waved [...]
The Supreme Court of Israel ruled Sunday that current legal restrictions on same-sex couples that prevent them from becoming parents were unlawful. The court said that the restrictions must be lifted within six months. Surrogacy in Israel is currently open only to heterosexual couples and single women with a genetic connection to the baby. However, [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee has temporarily blocked a Tennessee law that requires businesses to post signs alerting patrons if they allow transgender individuals to use the restroom that corresponds with that individual’s gender identity. Tennessee HB 1182 requires all businesses with formal or informal policies of [...]
The US Department of the Treasury on Friday removed sanctions on three Iranians, but stated that the move did not reflect a change in its sanctions policy toward Iran. The department announced that it had removed Behzad Ferdows, Mehrzad Ferdows and Mohammad Reza Dezfulian from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals [...]
