State kept secret guidelines on safe cell phone use

Claudia Polsky quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 2017

Claudia Polsky … said the public health department’s arguments for not releasing the document were irresponsible given the health impacts of sitting on such critical information. Polsky was unhappy the health department released the guidelines with a disclaimer across the document indicating it’s a draft and not for public release when the judge is likely to rule that the guidelines were “not a draft, and must be publicly released.”

$1M settlement reached by family of Anastacio Hernández Rojas who was brutally beaten and murdered by U.S. Border Patrol agents

Roxanna Altholz cited by Hispanic News Network U.S.A., March 3, 2017

In an interview with Democracy Now, Roxanna Altholz … said that since Hernández Rojas murder in 2010 by border patrol agents, at least 40 to 50 undocumented immigrants have been killed by agents, and none of the border patrol agents involved have been held accountable or brought to justice.

Families of victims of Colombia’s paramilitaries get their day in US court

Roxanna Altholz quoted by The Guardian, March 2, 2017

“Victims of [the Mexican drug boss Joaquín] Chapo Guzmán or other leaders of cartels or members of security forces or politicians who face drug charges could also face their victims in US court,” said Altholz. “It’s a new way to look at drug conspiracies,” she said. “It says those tons of cocaine and ounces of heroin that reach the US are tainted with blood.”

Doctors are being required to tell women about an unproven procedure called “abortion pill reversal”

Jill Adams quoted by BuzzFeed News, March 1, 2017

“Politicians are forcing medical professionals to read scripts that do not necessarily comport with their beliefs or their medical opinions of what will be the best treatment and in the best interest of their patients,” Jill Adams … told BuzzFeed News. “This is yet another step on a path that abortion opponents have been walking and forcing abortion providers to walk for many years now.”

In Snap’s I.P.O, evidence of bankers’ strategy

Steven Davidoff Solomon quoted by The New York Times, March 1, 2017

The bankers played another tried-and-true trick: limit the supply. Only about 19 percent of Snap’s total share float was offered, and a quarter of that amount was sold subject to a one-year lockup. Snap’s remaining capital needs were filled by a $1.2 billion loan from the same bankers underwriting the offering.

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