[JURIST – Taylor Isaac] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Monday dismissed [text, PDF] a 2014 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official website] case against AT&T Mobile [corporate website], which took issue with AT&T’s disclosures regarding the reduction of a customer’s data speed [Reuters report]. The process, known as “data…
Former Stanford University student, Brock Turner, was arrested on Jan. 18, 2015 for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. Turner was sentenced to only six months in county jail after being convicted of three felony sexual assault charges in March. This Friday, Turner is set to be released from jail, having served only…
iPhones around the world are dying in a peculiar way, and Apple isn’t doing right by affected users, asserts a lawsuit filed over the weekend. The plaintiffs are three in number for now but hope to elevate the case to class action status. It all concerns “Touch Disease,” a problem an unspecified but apparently large…
The California Superior Court [official website] on Friday rejected a challenge [application, PDF] to the state’s recently enacted physician-assisted suicide law. In June California passed the End of Life Option Act [text] which would allow “terminally ill” patients to be prescribed lethal drugs [JURIST report] if their doctor has determined that they have less than…
By: Larry Bodine: In April, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new rule – commonly known as the fiduciary rule – to protect workers saving for retirement from conflicted advice from their financial advisers. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Council of Life Insurers and a host of other corporate interests subsequently…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit [complaint] against Georgia on Tuesday alleging that the state discriminates against students with behavior-related disabilities. The DOJ argues that the state’s Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support Program (GNETS) violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibition on the “unnecessary segregation of persons with disabilities in state…
JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Alam of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses the negative effect corporate mergers have on preserving American jobs… While some public figures paint horror stories of how immigrants steal American jobs, subtler, but yet powerful forces leave thousands of American employees jobless. These forces are corporate restructuring and downsizing….
Zara has been hit with a massive lawsuit alleging that it is engaged in the widespread practice of deceiving American consumers through a classic bait and switch scheme in connection with its pricing. The $5 million-plus proposed class action lawsuit, which was filed by Devin Rose in the United States District Court for the Central…
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas [official website] on Sunday temporarily blocked [order, PDF] federal guidelines that allowed transgender students to use the bathroom according to the gender with which they identify. Judge Reed O’Connor found that the federal government overstepped its authority in issuing the guidance…
[JURIST] The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and data analysis company Upturn [official websites] released the Body Worn Cameras Scorecard [statistical report] on Saturday, a report which concluded that the policies concerning civil rights and the use of body cameras varied widely in more than 50 police departments that were evaluated. Each department’s…
