Orbitz.com Announces Data Breach
The popular travel website Orbitz.com has announced that it discovered evidence of a data breach in which an unauthorized third party accessed personal information for consumers who booked travel between: Reports indicate that approximately 880,000 payment cards were affected by the breach, and that along with the payment card information hackers may have accessed customers […]
Environmental Impact of the Olympics
As the Olympics have just ended, we have celebrated the wonder of sports and their power to spread joy. The Olympics are an awesome event that brings together people and countries in unparalleled ways. But one thing that shouldn’t get lost in this process is that preparing for the Olympics often involves large construction jobs […]
Little Known Locks Law Firm Trivia
So many of my blog entries have to do with very serious issues, such as riding mower rollover deaths, asbestos disease, complex regional pain syndrome, and other life-threatening matters. This month, I thought it might be fun to lighten up the subject matter. The Locks Law Firm is perhaps unique among all of the other […]
Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnosis After a Motor Vehicle Accident
Technological innovation has improved the safety of motor vehicles over the last thirty years. The mandatory use of seat belts has been accompanied by the development of harness belts and sensor technology. Airbags have become sophisticated to the extent that their deployment depends upon the location of vehicle impact during a crash. But for all […]
Trump Administration Continues to Gut EPA’s Ability to Protect Americans
I have written before on this page about the Trump Administration’s vendetta against the agencies that are tasked to protect our environment and Americans from toxic substances by gutting their budgets and closing departments responsible for the enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. A year into this Administration the assault on our health and safety […]
Post at Your Peril: Facebook Privacy Settings Don’t Protect Against Discoverability in New York
On February 13, 2018, the Court of Appeals weighed in on an important issue relating to the discoverability of private social media content. In a unanimous decision, New York’s highest court reversed the First Department’s application of a heightened threshold for the production of social media records where the account holder has chosen to share […]
United States Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in CareFirst, Inc. v. Attias.
Last week the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in CareFirst, Inc. v. Attias, No: 17-241. The denial of certiorari leaves in place the D.C. Circuit’s August 1, 2017 decision which found that victims of the 2014 CareFirst Data Breach had standing to sue the company for the increased risk of harm associated with the […]
Public Health for Sale
I began to write this blog piece on February 9, 2018, before the most recent mass school shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The purpose was to address how the corporate sector’s assault on science, in order to weaken regulations and civil justice and in turn increase profitability, has been […]
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Ransomware Attack
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, which offers IT solutions for physicians, hospitals, and other medical service by providing (among other things) electronic health records (“EHR”), financial management and e-prescription services was subject to a ransomware attack on January 18, 2018. The ransomware attack prevented medical providers using the Allscripts platform from accessing patient’s records, or electronically prescribing […]
Never Count Out The Underdog
On December 26, 1960 the underdog Philadelphia Eagles stunned the Green Bay Packers at Franklin Field to win the NFL championship. I attended that game as a 1st year law student and I joined the rest of the city and celebrated the win. Today, 57 years later, I can still vividly recall the touchdown pass […]
Success Is Not Always What It Seems
It was at 9800 feet—above the clouds—that I first began to cramp. My climbing companions and I had climbed from the Paradise Ranger station at 5500 feet of elevation on the southeast flank of Mt. Rainier in unusually sunny and warm conditions for June. We had covered the roughly 4000 vertical feet and 5 miles […]
Fly Eagles Fly
How can Locks Law Firm celebrate the appearance of the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII given that we have been battling against the NFL in the concussion litigation for over six years? Quite easily and joyously! Yes, the conduct of the National Football League in failing to protect its players from the risks of […]