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Husband of the deceased after eating at a Disney store rejects arbitration requested by the company because he had joined Disney+
The family of a woman who died in 2023 due to an allergic reaction after eating at a Disney restaurant in Florida, USA, rejected on Thursday a request from the company to dismiss the lawsuit, based on an agreement that favors arbitration in case of conflicts and that was contained in documents when her husband accessed the Disney+ streaming service in 2019.
Kanokporn Tangsuan, a doctor at a New York hospital, died in October 2023 due to a severe allergic reaction to nuts and dairy products after eating at a restaurant at the Disney Spring shopping center in Orlando.
Tangsuan had gone to dinner with his husband Jeffrey Piccolo, and his mother, on the night of October 5 at the Raglan Road Irish Pub restaurant, as described in the lawsuit filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Orange County (Florida).
According to the complaint, which alleges death by negligence against Disney, the woman had asked in the restaurant several times about the ingredients of the dinner warning about her allergies.
The doctor succumbed without being able to breathe after several minutes of eating and died in a hospital center due to “anaphylaxis due to the high levels of dairy and nuts in her system,” says the lawsuit about the results of the autopsy.
Her husband sued Disney for damages and requested a jury trial.
However, according to the entertainment company, the case should continue through arbitration, out of court, alluding to Piccolo’s Disney+ account and to avoid the high costs of the trial.
Disney bases its defense on the fact that Piccolo accepted a similar language of arbitrating “all disputes” against The Walt Disney Company or its affiliates not only when accessing Disney+, but also when he bought tickets for the park online in September 2023.
“There is simply no reading of the Disney+ Subscriber Agreement that supports the notion that Mr. Piccolo agreed to arbitrate claims that arose from injuries suffered by his wife in a restaurant located in facilities owned by a Disney theme park or resort and that finally led to her death,” the family’s defense detailed, according to the NPR channel.
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Cuban Supreme Court Confirms Successful Completion of Prisoner Release
The People’s Supreme Court of Cuba announced on Monday that it has successfully completed the release of 553 prisoners, a process first announced on January 14. Among those freed were political prisoners, including opposition figures José Daniel Ferrer and Félix Navarro.
The announcement came shortly after Washington, in the final days of the Biden administration, decided to remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
While Havana has insisted that the releases were a unilateral and sovereign decision, the United States maintains that the measure was part of an agreement mediated by the Vatican. According to U.S. sources, many of those released were participants in the July 11, 2021, anti-government protests, the largest demonstrations Cuba has seen in decades.
Cuban authorities have not provided a list of the released prisoners or a timeline for the implementation of the measure, despite multiple requests for information from EFE.
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Russia calls Zelensky’s Washington visit a “complete failure” after altercation with Trump
Russia stated on Saturday that Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington was a “complete failure” following the altercation with Donald Trump, accusing the Ukrainian leader of being “obsessed with continuing the war” with Moscow.
The visit “was a complete political and diplomatic failure of the Kiev regime,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova in a statement. Zakharova accused Zelensky of being “incapable of demonstrating a sense of responsibility,” of “rejecting peace,” and of using “lies and manipulations to justify the continuation of hostilities and the reception of military and financial aid from the West.”
Zelensky’s visit to Washington on Friday turned into a verbal brawl before cameras worldwide, when his counterpart, Donald Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance accused the Ukrainian leader of being ungrateful for U.S. aid and rejecting peace talks. Zelensky was prematurely escorted out of the White House without signing the agreement he had gone to Washington for, which involved giving up the exploitation of Ukraine’s mineral resources in exchange for security guarantees.
“With his excessively rude behavior during his visit to Washington, Zelensky confirmed that he is the most dangerous threat to the international community as an irresponsible warmonger,” Zakharova stated.
She also accused European leaders of “political weakness” and “baseness” for backing Zelensky after the “moral lesson” he received in Washington.
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Lula criticizes Trump-Zelensky meeting: “Grotesque and disrespectful”
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated on Saturday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was humiliated during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, calling the scenes broadcast live by the media “grotesque.”
“I’m not a diplomat, but since diplomacy was created, there has never been such a grotesque and disrespectful scene as the one that took place in the Oval Office of the White House,” Lula told reporters in Montevideo, where he was attending the inauguration of Uruguay’s president-elect, Yamandú Orsi.
“Honestly, I believe that part of society thrives on disrespecting others, and it is impossible to talk about democracy without respecting other human beings. I think Zelensky was humiliated, and I believe that in Trump’s mind, Zelensky deserved it,” he added.
Earlier on Saturday, Lula met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for a bilateral discussion. During their meeting, Lula stated that Europe would likely bear the responsibility for rebuilding Ukraine and maintaining NATO.
“It is very likely that Europe will be blamed for the disaster happening now, when in reality, it is not the fault of any specific country. It is a matter of irresponsible leaders who refuse to discuss peace and instead prefer to talk about war,” he argued.
Lula also reiterated Brazil and China’s proposal for a negotiated peace process, which would bring Ukraine and Russia to the table with other countries acting as mediators.
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