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SCOTUS denies mobile phone lawsuit

Discover how the Supreme Court ruling protects mobile phone companies from lawsuits claiming a link between cell phones and brain damage.

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I'm not a huge fan of the current US Supreme Court, but they recently did something right: Bloomberg is reporting the Court denied the revival of a lawsuit against mobile phone companies from a group claiming cell phones cause brain damage, including cancer. The Court denied the claim for legal reasons -- basically, the suit was filed under state law claims, but a court had already ruled that those laws were superseded by federal (FCC) regulations. So the Court ruled the claimant doesn't get to sue mobile phone companies. And while you might consider this ruling decided on a technicality, it turned out the right way. Mobile phones don't cause cancer. Or, if you want to be technically accurate, studies of this topic have shown that any link between cell phones and brain damage is so weak it's statistically indistinguishable from no link at all. The exception would be if ...

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