FREEDOM LINE BLOG: So-Called "Railway Safety Act" Constitutes a Political Handout to Big Labor That…
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So-Called "Railway Safety Act" Constitutes a Political Handout to Big Labor That Does Nothing to Improve Safety At All

America as we know it was built largely upon and because of our rail industry, and today it remains a pillar of our economy.

Unfortunately, a destructive proposal before Congress misleadingly named the "Railway Safety Act" (RSA), part of broader surface transportation reauthorization, threatens great harm to our railroads.

Simply put, the bill has nothing to do with improving safety, but has a lot to do with advancing the political agenda of Big Labor.  At a moment when inflation burdens American families and fragile supply chains remain vulnerable to disruption, the last thing our economy or rail sector need is another costly federal mandate imposed upon one of the nation’s most important transportation sectors.

As an initial matter, as noted by The Wall Street Journal, the…[more]

May 20, 2026 • 04:28 PM
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Thursday, September 29 2016

Just one day after Yahoo announced a massive 2014 hacking, a New York man has filed a class action lawsuit.

Ronald Schwartz is seeking class action status in his lawsuit filed in the federal court in San Jose, California. Schwartz says he is suing on behalf of the roughly 500 million Yahoo users whose accounts were believed to have been hacked by a "state-sponsored actor." Schwartz suggested in the lawsuit that the breach might have been thwarted if Yahoo had lived up to its promise of taking user privacy "seriously" and bulked up its security measures.

Yahoo demonstrated "reckless disregard for the security of its users' personal information that it promised to protect," according to the complaint.

A Yahoo spokeswoman told news organizations the Sunnyvale, California-based company does not discuss pending litigation.

—Source:  businessinsider.com

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