Supreme Court won’t hear phone radiation harm case

By Ahmad Hathout The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) late last week denied leave to appeal applications challenging the upholding of a ruling that allows the formation of a class of plaintiffs in Quebec to file a lawsuit against Apple and Samsung for alleged phone radiation harm. The two largest smartphone manufacturers in the world argued in their submissions to the SCC that allowing the authorization of the class of plaintiffs to bring the companies to court for punitive damages based on what they called unfounded claims of RF harm would challenge – and effectively render useless – the radiofrequency...