U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled airlines that fail to warn passengers about the possible risk of deep vein thrombosis, a blood clot condition also called “economy class syndrome”, may face lawsuits.
Deep vein thrombosis is believed to affect people who sit in cramped conditions for long hours without exercise. Small blood clots form in […]

The consumer advocacy group known as Californians for Privacy Now has collected over 300,000 signatures from registered voters in support of a March 2004 ballot measure that would require financial institutions to obtain a consumer’s explicit consent before selling or sharing their personal information with affiliates or third party companies for any purpose other than […]

More bad news for the 3 million women taking the popular hormone-replacement therapy Prempro, a new analysis of data from the Women’s Health Initiative found that estrogen-progestin pills stimulate the growth of breast cancer and make it harder to find tumors. The findings were published in the Journal of American Medical Association.
“Hopefully, it will convince […]

U.S. District Court Judge Milton Pollack dismissed two class-action lawsuits brought by investors who claim biased research reports from stock analysts at Merrill Lynch were to blame for their losses on 24/7 Media and Interliant whose stock prices dropped after the Internet bubble burst in 2000. In a similar suit, federal judge Harold Baer Jr., […]

The California Supreme Court ruled that sending unsolicited e-mails to a company’s employees can’t be considered trespassing. The court overturned a lower court’s injunction that banned Ken Hamidi, a former employee of Intel, from sending a barrage of e-mails to his former co-workers at Intel.
In a 4-3 ruling, the court rejected Intel’s argument that […]