Legislation and Lawsuits

Hilex Poly, ChicoBag Reach Settlement over False Marketing Claims

Hilex Poly Company LLC , Hartsville, S.C., a manufacturer and recycler of plastic bags, films and wraps has reached a settlement agreement with ChicoBag, a manufacturer of reusable bags, resolving a lawsuit in which Hilex Poly contended that ChicoBag was making false marketing claims against it. The agreement resulted in an undisclosed settlement payment to Hilex Poly from ChicoBag

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Going Against the Flow

In mid-June, the U.S. District Court in Syracuse, N.Y., struck down the flow control law in Oswego County, N.Y., saying it was unconstitutionally vague. The flow control provisions of the law, which were enacted in July 1, 2009, directed all solid waste and residential recyclables to county facilities.

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Maine high court rules in data breach suit

U.S. District Court Judge D

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Appeals Court Affirms Order Requiring Seasilver Defendants to Pay Almost $120 Million in Diet Supplement Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a district court ruling requiring marketers of Seasilver, an alleged phony cure-all, to pay almost $120 million for failing to comply with an earlier order requiring them to pay $3 million in consumer redress.

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Judge: FTC Cannot Make Lawyers Comply With Identity Theft Laws

The Federal Trade Commission cannot force practicing lawyers to comply with new regulations aimed at curbing identity theft, a federal judge ruled today at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

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Stolen computer held data from N.C. doctors : News-Record.com : Greensboro & the Triad’s most trusted source for local news and analysis

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has begun to warn about 30,000 health care providers their personal information may have been compromised because of a computer theft. In a letter now circulating, Blue Cross said an employee at Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, a business partner in Chicago, violated policy by transferring…

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Gonzalez Pleads Not Guilty To New Jersey Charges

Albert Gonzalez, the man that U.S. federal authorities have accused of masterminding the cyber attacks of more than a dozen of the nation’s largest retail chains, plead not guilty Tuesday (Oct.

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Lawsuit: A Heartland Manager Resigned Because Of PCI Compliance Issues

As the lawsuits involving Heartland’s massive data breach move through the court system, an unusual claim was inserted into a court filing. The Sept

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Data Breaches: Patterns and Their Implications

One problem that every information security organization faces is how to accurately quantify the risks that they manage. In most cases, there is not enough information available to do this, but there is now enough known about data breaches to let us draw interesting conclusions, some of which may even have implications in other areas of information security.

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Data Breaches: Patterns and Their Implications