Photo by Prostock-studio / Shutterstock.com A U.S. Supreme Court ruling could unleash a new flood of robocalls, consumer advocates say. In a unanimous decision in Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, the court ruled in favor of Facebook this week, recognizing the legality of a notification system that the social media company …
Read More »Plastic Surgeon Attends Video Traffic Court From Operating Room
California’s Medical Board started an investigation after Dr. Scott Green reported for the hearing on Zoom while in scrubs and with a patient on the operating table. The Medical Board of California said it was investigating a plastic surgeon who attended a video traffic court hearing from an operating room …
Read More »Sued For Bad Review? 5 High-Profile Lawsuits Of S’pore Firms And Customers Taking It To Court
It is oftentimes the responsibility of businesses to ensure that customers are treated with care, and a misalignment in expectations of both parties might escalate into a lawsuit. On the flip side, there have also been instances of firms suing their customers instead. Here are some high-profile lawsuits between companies …
Read More »Epic loses court bid to force Apple to reinstate Fortnite in the App Store
You can’t solo security COVID-19 game security report: Learn the latest attack trends in gaming Access here A federal judge denied a request from Epic Games to force Apple to reinstate Epic’s Fortnite game on the App Store while awaiting the results of an antitrust lawsuit. U.S. District Court judge …
Read More »Researchers create dataset to advance U.S. Supreme Court gender bias analysis
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now University of Washington language researchers and legal professionals recently created a labeled dataset for detection of interruptions and competitive turn-taking in U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. They then used the corpus of “turn changes” to train AI models to experiment …
Read More »German Court Overturns Ban on Assisted Suicide
BERLIN — Germany’s highest court on Wednesday overturned a ban on medically assisted suicide, adding to a long-simmering debate about euthanasia and the role of professionals in end-of-life decisions in a country with Nazi ties to the practice. The Federal Constitutional Court found that the right to die “includes the …
Read More »Appeals Court Rejects Trump Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas
A federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling striking down work rules for Medicaid recipients in Arkansas, casting more doubt over broader Trump administration efforts to require poor people to work, volunteer or train for a job as a condition of getting government health coverage. …
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