The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday announced a $1 million fine against Pearson PLC, a London-based educational and publishing company, after finding the company misled investors. In 2018, hackers obtained student and administrator data from 13,000 Pearson accounts. The SEC’s investigation revealed that Pearson did not reveal that breach accurately in public statements. [...]
The UN Security Council on Monday called for an immediate end to violence and for the restoration of order in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of the country, expressing concerns about reported serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights abuses. The Taliban took control over Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Sunday. President [...]
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 [...]
President Andrzej Duda signed a bill on Saturday that severely restricts restitution and compensation for people whose properties were seized by Nazi occupiers, and expropriated during the country’s communist era. The bill was passed by the Polish parliament on Thursday and will mostly affect Jews and their descendants who are the majority whose properties were [...]
The Texas Supreme Court imposed temporary stay orders in favor of Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday allowing his executive order banning schools and governmental officials from requiring masks to stand. After a Texas judge granted restraining orders against the mask mandate ban, Abbot filed petitions to challenge the restraining orders, first in the Fifth Court [...]
The Bombay High Court on Friday stayed two provisions of India’s Information Technology Rules (“the Rules” or “Rules”) intended to regulate publishers of digital content such as social media intermediaries, OTT (Over-the-top) platforms, and online news and current affairs websites. The provisions in question, Rules 9(1) and (3), were issued by the central government in [...]
A panel of human rights experts have called on the UN member states to place a moratorium on the sale of surveillance technology until there is a regulatory framework that protects human rights. In a statement released Thursday, the group of experts said they were “deeply concerned that highly sophisticated intrusive tools are being used [...]
Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), one of the world’s six “supermajor” oil companies, on Wednesday announced it will pay N 45.9 billion (naira) (US $111.6 million) in settling a decades-long legal dispute concerning an oil spill that occurred during the Biafran-Nigerian civil war. A coalition of ten Ogoni community members led by Chief Isaac Agbara in [...]
The US Supreme Court issued an emergency order on Thursday blocking part of New York’s eviction moratorium aimed at protecting renters from eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the emergency order, thousands of renters will potentially face eviction. The emergency order will remove the “self-attestation” ability for renters, which previously allowed renters [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced on Thursday that the rocket and mortar attacks by Hamas, killing civilians in Israel and Gaza, constituted a war crime under the laws of war. The human rights advocacy group said the armed wing of the Islamist militant group and other Palestinian groups staged rocket and mortar attacks against Israel [...]
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