Angélica Serrano-Román reports:
A judge overseeing 23andMe’s bankruptcy questioned the implications of a provision in President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” during a discussion of Canadian litigation against the company.
Judge Brian C. Walsh of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, while reviewing the fallen DNA testing firm’s motion to halt Canadian class actions over a cybersecurity breach, asked during a hearing Tuesday if the company would provide a security bond to support a preliminary injunction if needed.
He acknowledged that it was an “odd question” but said it was prompted by H.R. 1, legislation that, among other things, would extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and increase spending on military and border security. The measure also aims to restrict US courts’ ability to enforce contempt orders for failure to comply with injunctions issued without security.
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