Thailand Delays Data Protection Law Because of COVID-19
Written by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act was passed in May 2019, and was scheduled to go into effect May 27, 2020. The Act is very similar to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.
What Constitutes Provision Of An Alternate Physician In Florida?
Written by: Rayford H. Taylor, Esq. The First District Court of Appeal (First District) in City of Bartow v. Flores, 1D18-1927 (May 29, 2020) has certified a question of great public importance to the Florida Supreme Court on the issue of when a
EDPB Issues Statement on Hungary’s Decree to Suspend Rights Bestowed to Data Subjects Under the GDPR
Written by: Brett Lawrence, Esq. On May 4, 2020, Hungary issued a governmental decree suspending the rights of data subjects under Articles 15 to 22 of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in an attempt to contain the spre
Brazilian LGPD Effective and Enforcement Dates in Flux
Written by: Charles R. Langhorne IV, Esq. Brazil’s new data privacy law, the “LGPD,” was set to go into effect on August 15, 2020. The LGPD is based largely on the European Union’s GDPR. Due to the impact COVID-19 has had on businesses,
COVID-19 May Worsen the Opioid Crisis
The rapid and unprecedented spread of the novel coronavirus has revealed massive gaps in our nation’s public health and support infrastructure, and some of the most vulnerable patients are those who are already fighting another epidemic: opioi
Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Order to Move Inmates From Virus-Ravaged Prison
Written by: Phillip E. Friduss, Esq. Thus is the title of Adam Liptak’s New York Times coverage of the Ohio inmate transfer case, Williams v Wilson case we reported on last week. The piece begins: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused a req
An Unprecedented Time: Decarcerating and other Steps Being Taken in Georgia’s Jails and Prisons as the Result of COVID-19
Written by: Jennifer Dorminey Herzog, Esq. Because of policies of mass incarceration over the past four decades, the United States has incarcerated more people than any other country on Earth.[1] Highly transmissible novel respiratory pathogen
Dutch Court Goes Too Far In Enforcing Privacy Regulation
Written by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. A Dutch court has ruled that a grandmother is violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation by posting photographs of her grandchildren on her social media account without the consent of the children
Relief for Commercial Landlords or Tenants in the Federal CARES Act?
Written by: Matthew Haan, Esq. In response to the hardship being felt by millions of Americans caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The Act contains a number of provisio
COVID-19 in Jails and Prisons – US Supreme Court Asked to Stay Ohio Injunction Requiring Transfer of Inmates
Written by: Phillip E. Friduss, Esq. There have now been any number of COVID-related challenges to the conditions of confinement in jails/prisons nationwide, especially with respect to the elderly inmate population. Two weeks ago we reported o