Morning Wrap: Takata Rejects Victim Fund | Judge Assails Feds Over Gitmo Videos | Uber's Lawyers Push Back
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler slams the Justice Department over delay in releasing redacted Guantanamo videos. Takata spurns a U.S. senator's push for a victim compensation fund. Federal marriage benefits are extended to same-sex partners nationwide. And Uber's lawyers push back against a class action over drivers' employment status. This is a news roundup from ALM and other publications.
July 10, 2015 at 03:15 AM
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Move Forward: A frustrated judge Thursday told the U.S. Department of Justice that she is done waiting for yet-unreleased videos from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the Intercept reports. “That's not going to be,” U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said at a hearing. “We're going to move forward.” Kessler in October issued an order that the DOJ release the videos, which depict the force-feeding and cell-extraction. DOJ attorneys said they could have eight of the 32 tapes in question redacted and ready for review by opposing counsel by August 31. The Guardian has more here.
Growing Attack: The Office of Personnel Management announced Thursday that hackers stole sensitive information on 21.5 million people in a recently disclosed cyber-attack that breached the federal government's database of security background checks. That number is more than five times greater than the estimated 4.2 million current and former U.S. government staffers whose employee data was taken in a previous OPM hack. Since the two groups of victims overlap, the overall tally falls several million short of 25 million, Politico reports. A federal union this week filed suit in California over the breach.
No Takata Fund: “Takata believes that a national compensation fund is not currently required,” a company executive wrote in a letter to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, according to a report in The New York Times. Bloomberg has more on the company's rejection of a victim fund, which Blumenthal had pushed for.
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