#legal-immunity

#legal-immunity

United States President Donald Trump's administration has drafted a legal opinion stating that US military personnel involved in military strikes off the coast of Latin America are immune from prosecution, The Washington Post and the Reuters news agency have reported. The Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel provided the White House with the opinion on the issue of criminal liability for the strikes on vessels in the Caribbean, the outlets reported on Wednesday, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter.

A Franklin County judge dismissed a lawsuit against the city of Columbus, which claimed it failed to follow industry standards and federal guidelines for data security. The lawsuit was filed last year after the ransomware group Rhysida claimed it stole over 6 terabytes of city data and posted it for sale. The incident caused the city to shut down multiple systems and take months to bring some of them back online.