Emerging Litigation Blog
Edited and curated by Tom Hagy, this blog features articles from the Journal on Emerging Issues in Litigation, episodes of the Emerging Litigation Podcast, webinars produced by HB Litigation and Critical Legal Content, and guest posts. Many of the contributions come from the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal on Emerging Issues in Litigation, published by Fastcase Full Court Press. The podcast is a collaboration between HB, CLC, Fastcase, and Law Street Media. Contact: Editor@LitigationConferences.com.
Organizational Values & Business Risks: Properly Balancing Stakeholder Concerns
Accommodations. Appropriate accommodation for high-risk employees or employees with family members who are at a heightened risk. Mitigation. Attention to means of mitigating transmission and infection. Tracing. Contact tracing and management of data collected, including health data, as well as responses to employees who refuse to report. Patient Sensitivity. Duty to avoid [...]
$3M Transferred in Fraud Scheme, Law Firm Gets Sued, Says It Followed Client Instructions
$3M Transferred in Fraud Scheme, Law Firm Sued, Says It Followed Client Instructions Two related foundations hired a big law firm to sell stock and execute a merger via wire transfer. Cyber fraudsters had other ideas. Posing as stock seller, and intercepting a verification email, the perpetrators grabbed $3.1 million. The foundations sued the firm [...]
Microsoft Sued Over Data Sharing in Class Action
Microsoft Sued Over Data Sharing in Class Action Consumers, including individuals and companies, filed a class action complaint against Microsoft in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming the company shared consumer data without consent to subcontractors and third parties, including Facebook, despite policies that stated otherwise. The plaintiffs accused Microsoft of “misrepresenting its privacy and [...]
Facial Recognition Update July 2020
Facial Recognition Technology -- Emerging After Decades of Development -- Draws Lawsuits and Proposed Bans We sometimes forget that not all of the technical wizards who transformed our world were young “geniuses” jacked up on Starbucks, their shirttails hanging out in the ping-pong section of their open concept offices. Woody Bledsoe was born 99 years ago. [...]
Healthcare Industry Antitrust Measures Advance as Pandemic Pressures Persist
Healthcare Industry Antitrust Measures Advance as Pandemic Pressures Persist Did consolidation help frustrate U.S. COVID-19 preparedness? Clearly antitrust enforcers must consider external circumstances like the COVID-19 crisis when making enforcement decisions, and the agencies have bene able to pivot to respond to this crisis remarkably quickly. It is important, however, to also consider whether and how [...]
Tech’s Big Four Will Testify Before Antitrust Subcommittee
Four Technology Giants’ CEOs Will Testify Before Congress in On-going Antitrust Investigation Executives from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will appear (either virtually, as they are permitted to, or in person) before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee on July 27, 2020. According to its press release, the Subcommittee has been scrutinizing the companies’ [...]
Cannabis, CBD: Advertising and Drug Test Problems
COVID-19 vs Cannabis: Are Closures Legal? In the category of “damned if you do; damned if you don’t,” Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker shut down recreational cannabis shops, citing concerns over the spread of COVID-19. The dispensaries say the shutdown could seriously damage the industry. But, the governor said, the spread of disease will continue to damage [...]
The Dark Net: Anonymity, Infrastructure, and the Future
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