5/25/2015 A lawsuit will continue in U.S. District Court in Minnesota regarding Target’s widespread 2013 pre-holiday data breach as banks rejected a $19 million settlement proposed last month. Over 40 million debit and credit cards were compromised during the breach, putting millions of cardholders’ information at risk. The settlement set aside by Target would have
5/24/2105 ’Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.’ Sir Walter Scott could not have written a more apt fictional parable than the legislative mayhem occurring inside of the Capitol this past week regarding the immediate future of the controversial and secretive National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying program. As we
5/20/2015 Baseball is a game of eternal youth, and nothing may be more evident of that than listening to 95 year-old retired Supreme Court Justice, John Paul Stevens talk passionately about the future course of the sport. In a May 15th speech in front of the Sports Lawyers Association in Baltimore, Justice Stevens recalled his
5/19/2015 The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) May 15th warning of potential ketoacidosis among Type II diabetes patients who use a new class of oral treatments known as SGLT2 inhibitors should not be completely surprising. The first such medicine approved by the FDA in March, 2013 was Invokana (canagliflozin), manufactured by Janssen Pharmaceuticals in conjunction
5/19/2015 Many people were caught off-guard in 2010 by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United vs. FEC ruling that in many ways equated the amount of political speech one was able to express by the amount of money the speaker was able to spend. The New York Times, however, notes that the Court made a similar
5/18/15 If there were any doubts about whether or not many banks broke the law while selling bad mortgages to investors or if their clients were merely victims of bad timing, Manhattan Federal Court Judge, Denise L. Cote, would like to eliminate them. Finding Japanese bank, Nomura Holdings and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
5/18/15 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning on its website on Friday, May 15th regarding a popular oral type II diabetes class of medications known as SGLT2 inhibitors. The FDA warned that the increasingly popular class of drugs, which help blood sugar to be secreted in urine, has led to ketoacidosis,
Recovery under the WPLA requires proof that the unsafe product was the proximate cause of the claimant’s injuries. A plaintiff seeking to recover must also be aware of the common law defenses to what was the cause of injury because the WPLA does not preempt existing common law defenses, including assumption of risk. Although assumption
5/18/2015 As mentioned in my last post, Google has just launched the first self-driving car onto public roadways near its California headquarters. This comes after the company recently admitted to the vehicles being involved in 11 minor accidents, with no injuries and little damage during 6 years of testing. These revelations confirm many people’s concerns
5/17/2015 Google’s self-driving cars have finally hit public roads as of Friday, May 15th around the company headquarters in Mountain View, California. This comes after 6 years of trials on test tracks and over a million miles of testing. Although working with automakers Lexus, Audi, and BMW, among others during the testing process, Google has