Monsanto Gets $185 Million Wash. PCB Verdict Overturned
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A Washington state appeals court sided with Monsanto on Wednesday, undoing a $185 million jury verdict for three teachers who claimed they were sicked by PCBs at a Washington school site and ruling the case could be limited by the Evergreen state's 12-year statute of repose for product liability claims ..read more
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Senate Revs Up For FAA Funding Fight
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday inched toward advancing multiyear legislation reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration's safety and airport improvement programs, accelerating debate on a package that would hire more air traffic controllers and enhance passenger protections amid high-profile aviation industry mishaps ..read more
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Senate Dems Reintroduce Bill To Tax And Regulate Cannabis
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Senate Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced a cannabis legalization bill that would remove the drug entirely from the ambit of the Controlled Substances Act and impose a tax-and-regulate scheme akin to what is currently in place for alcohol and tobacco ..read more
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Ex-Cybersecurity Firm CEO Settles SEC Fraud Claims
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A former executive for a cybersecurity firm has agreed to settle regulators' allegations that he lied to investors about the firm's success in selling a new product and that he fabricated aspects of his background and experience, according to filings in Texas federal court ..read more
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Mitsubishi's Trial Loss Over Defective Seat Belt Upped To $1B
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A Philadelphia judge bumped up a $980 million verdict for a Mitsubishi driver left paralyzed following a rollover crash, which was blamed on a defective seat belt, to over $1 billion on Monday, after granting the driver's motion to tack on an additional $33 million in delay damages ..read more
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Carnival Fails To Ditch 'Far From Perfect' Hot-Soup Suit
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Carnival Cruise Lines can't escape a lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for second- and third-degree burns that a passenger suffered when hot soup spilled on her legs, a Florida federal judge has ruled, saying the complaint — "while not perfect" — gets the job done and can survive at this stage of litigation ..read more
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Activision, Microsoft Accused Of Addicting Georgia Gamer, 16
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The mother of a Georgia teen has accused major gaming companies, including Activision Blizzard Inc. and Microsoft Corp., of deliberately engineering addictive experiences intended to get users to play longer and spend more on in-game purchases ..read more
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Microsoft Details How It Addresses AI Risks In New Report
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Microsoft Corp., the leading investor in ChatGPT-creator OpenAI, detailed Wednesday in its first-ever artificial intelligence transparency report how the tech giant is working to keep its ballooning stable of AI tools from causing harm in the U.S. and abroad ..read more
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Tribe Fires Back At Feds' Brief In Enbridge Pipeline Row
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The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians called on the Seventh Circuit to reject in part the federal government's position in an appeal over the future of Enbridge Energy's controversial Line 5 oil pipeline ..read more
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Textron Aviation Must Face Questions In Conn. Death Suits
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A Connecticut state court judge says a Kansas-based aircraft manufacturer must answer a series of questions about its connections to the Constitution State after being sued over a 2021 plane crash, disagreeing with most of Textron Aviation Inc.'s personal jurisdiction arguments that it need not face additional interrogatories ..read more
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