Tag: Vince Chhabria

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Facebook faces major lawsuit for allowing third parties access to users private data

  

  A US federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook Inc to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users' private data, calling the social media company's views on privacy “so wrong.”

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Glyphosate case: US Judge lowers damage award against Bayer

  

  A U.S. judge on Tuesday said he would reduce a US$80 million damage award against Bayer AG to US$50 million or less in the case of a man who blamed his cancer on glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said the jury's US$75 million punitive damages award to plaintiff Edwin Hardeman in March could not stand.