In 2017, North Carolina experienced the nation’s second-highest increase in opioid-related deaths. This spike includes a total of 1,118 people who died last year by use of fentanyl and other fentanyl analogues. Fentanyl is used for post-surgery pain management and is 100 times stronger than morphine, and 50 times stronger than heroin. Analogues (drugs that …
Earlier this year the Canadian Senate voted to pass Bill C-45, known as the Cannabis Act, and will effectively make recreational marijuana legal for adults. Marijuana will not be sold in the same locations as alcohol or tobacco and will be available from drug retailers regulated by provinces and territories or from federally licensed producers. …
Over the past couple of years, Apple has sued semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm in three different countries, with its United States claim seeking approximately $1 billion in damages. In its complaint, Apple alleged that Qualcomm was “withholding” that sum “as retaliation for [Apple] responding truthfully to law enforcement agencies investigating [Qualcomm].” In a major development in …
For the first time ever, the FBI forced a suspect to use his own face to unlock his phone. Grant Michalski’s home was being searched in connection to a child pornography charge that would be filed later that month. According to the affidavit in support of the search warrant Michalski “was required by law enforcement …
In 2015, the Obama Administration’s FCC passed the Open Internet Order which promoted net neutrality by imposing regulations on broadband internet providers. Now, in a lengthy brief of counter-arguments filed on October 11, 2018, the Trump Administration’s FCC claimed that they never had the legal authority to enact such an order. What happened? Net neutrality …
According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs there are currently 4,858 registered objects orbiting the Earth. The Union of Concerned Scientist’s Satellite Database states of those 4,858 objects, 1,886 of them are operational satellites. The objects are registered to 78 different countries. The country with the most objects registered is the United …
Over the past few years, a number of U.S. companies have suffered serious data breaches. In the most recent data breach, 30 million Facebook accounts were compromised. Facebook estimates that hackers stole the names, phone numbers, email addresses, search history, and device information of 14 million Facebook users. The attack occurred in late September 2018 …
For most, an introduction to Justice Kavanaugh would be redundant. However, for the few interested in intellectual property, Kavanaugh’s confirmation comes timely to two upcoming intellectual property cases. First, Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, LLC asks whether “registration of [a] copyright claim has been made” in accordance to 17 U.S.C. § 411(a) when the …
Much hullabaloo has resulted from Elon Musk’s tweet in August 2018, announcing falsely that he had secured funding to take Tesla private at $420 a share. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) official fraud investigation reports that Musk seriously rounded to $420 to impress his girlfriend with a weed reference. Due to stockholder pressure, Musk …
Last month, New York took yet another step toward regulating nascent virtual currency exchanges, which are largely used as a platform to trade virtual cryptocurrencies in a way that is similar to how securities are traded on a more traditional stock exchange. The Office of the New York State Attorney General released its “Virtual Market …