An 83-year-old woman who was held at gunpoint and handcuffed after her car was wrongly reported as stolen can sue the officers responsible, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled earlier this m...
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Bahrain Fails In Bid To Claim State Immunity Over Alleged Hacking Of Dissidents
Exterior of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, UK, the home of the High Court and the Court of … [+] Appeal getty The Bahrain government faces another law suit over the alleged hacking of tw...
Nevada Supreme Court Upholds The Right To Sue The Government, Blocks Qualified Immunity
In a landmark decision late last month, the Nevada Supreme Court unanimously ruled that victims of wrongful searches and seizures have the right to sue the responsible government officials. Just as cr...
Former FTX Executive and Housemate of Sam Bankman-Fried Cutting Immunity Deal With Feds: Report
A former senior executive at bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has met US federal prosecutors with a view of cutting an immunity deal. According to a new Bloomberg report, Nishad Singh, a former director o...
No Immunity For Prosecutor Accused Of Fabricating Evidence In Death Row Case
For the second time, a federal appeals court has denied prosecutorial immunity to a Louisiana district attorney accused of falsifying testimony that sent a man to death row. Created by the U.S. Suprem...
Voyager Digital’s Creditors Oppose Against Proposal to Provide Executioners with Legal Immunity.
Voyager filed its bankruptcy at the beginning of the second quarter of 2022. FTX won the auction for Voyager digital and purchased it for $1.4 billion. Since the last few months, the crypto market ...
Voyager [VGX]: Creditors oppose the immunity plan, details inside
Following the confirmation of FTX as the winner of the auction for the assets of bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital Ltd, its creditors have challenged the proposed plans to offer the company’s ...
Creditors Oppose Immunity From Future Bankruptcy Lawsuits Plans for Voyager Execs
Lawyers representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (UCC) of Voyager Digital have raised objections to sweeping legal immunity being planned for the firm’s senior executives. Last month...
Voyager Digital’s Creditors Push Back Against Plans to Provide Execs With Legal Immunity
Attorneys for the UCC describe a “Hobson’s choice” for Voyager’s creditors: to either support the sale agreement as-is and have a chance at getting their money back faster while allowing Voyager’s exe...
Teens’ Protection From Pfizer’s Covid Shot Fades Weeks After Vaccination—But Shot Still Wards Off Serious Illness, Study Finds
Topline The effectiveness of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine in teens fades rapidly in the weeks after vaccination, according to research published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open, a finding tha...
Supreme Court Creates New Immunity For Cops Who Violate The Fifth Amendment
In a decision that undermines almost 60 years of precedent, the U.S. Supreme Court last month declared that police officers who don’t issue Miranda warnings before interrogations can’t be sued for vio...
Federal Judge Asks The Justice Department To Fish Or Cut Bait About Meadows Immunity
Federal Judge Carl J. Nichols asked the Justice Department whether Mark Meadows has immunity from testimony. The inquiry puts Merrick Garland’s department on the horns of a painful dilemma on a matter...
A Single Mutation Could Make Zika Virus More Infectious And Able To Break Through Immunity, Researchers Warn
Topline A small mutation can potentially make the Zika virus more infectious and better able to avoid pre-existing immunity, according to peer reviewed research published Tuesday in Cell Reports, unde...
CDC director says high immunity in U.S. population provides some protection against omicron BA.2
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Tuesday said there is enough immunity in the U.S. population to provide some protection against the more contagious omicron BA.2 subvariant, which could help stave of...
Reboot Your Gut Health (And Your Immunity) With Sakara Life
Achieving health and wellness of my mind, body, and spirit are a focus for me at the moment—and strengthening my immunity is part of that goal. With the gut playing such a prominent role in our immune...