NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 17 attorneys general today filed an amicus brief in support of a district court decision finding that North Carolina can not impose unnecessary and burdensome restrictions to access mifepristone that were rejected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The coalition filed an…
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MEDICAL DATA AT RISK?: CIPA Takes on Digital Tracking in Healthcare
Blake Landis of Troutman Amin, LLP writes: I’m back with the latest scoop on a fascinating case! In St. Aubin v. Carbon Health Technologies, Inc., the United States District Court for the Northern District of California recently analyzed a claim under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), Cal. Penal Code § 630 et seq., in…
Police can access mobile phone data for minor crimes, EU top court rules
Sam Clark reports: European police can access data on people’s phones even when they aren’t suspected of serious crimes, the EU’s top court ruled Friday. “To consider that only the fight against serious crime is capable of justifying access to data contained in a mobile telephone would unduly limit the investigative powers of the competent…
UNDELIVERED: Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail
Debbie Nathan reports: It was a tip that brought a dog to the main post office in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. An employee there had reported seeing someone in the lobby putting pills into hot pink envelopes. Hours later, Ed Steed, a police officer from the small city of Richland, just south of Jackson, walked into a…