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'A big supermarket shop feels frivolous now'
2020-10-23 01:19:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Families from both ends of the income spectrum have had to tighten their belts in the last six months.
Panasonic invests $60m in 'frivolous' laundry robot
2016-11-21 07:03:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Japanese startup behind the world's first laundry robot is getting a big vote of confidence from Panasonic, which has invested $60m (49m) into the invention.
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Climate scientists are under attack from frivolous lawsuits
2016-07-07 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Todays climate scientists have a lot more to worry about than peer review. Organizations with perverse financial incentives harass scientists with lawsuit after lawsuit, obstructing research and seeking to embarrass them with disclosures of private information. On June 14th, an Arizona court ruled that thousands of emails from two prominent climate scientists must be turned over to the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E), a group that disputes the 97% expert consensus on human-caused climate...
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Another Frivolous Trade Secret Case: Court Finds Bad Faith in Cypress v. Maxim
2015-05-06 23:36:50| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation and Maxim Integrated Products are two big Silicon Valley tech companies, both with an interest in touchscreen technologies. In February 2011, Maxim engaged a recruiter named Zion Mushel to help the company fill some positions with employees who had experience with touchscreen.
Demonization By Litigation: Food Ingredient Makers Face Frivolous Charges
2013-11-14 19:10:45| Agriculture - Topix.net
When some future legal scholar writes the history of how the public health activist-plaintiffs' bar-government regulator axis of paternalism tried to use litigation to alter America's food choices, S.F. v.
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