EHT on Italy's Cassazione ruling: 'right to know' about cell-phone RF risks recognized in Briganti v. Apple

Environmental Health Trust reports: Italy's Corte di Cassazione ruled on 24 July 2026 in Briganti v Apple that cell-phone manufacturers may owe consumers a duty to inform about potential RF-exposure health risks even when the science is not conclusive. Italian lawyer Fabio Cardanobile argued that consumer information is itself a legally protected right. The court invoked the ALARA principle and held that withholding relevant risk information can constitute compensable harm without proof of disease. EHT founder Devra Davis welcomed the ruling and linked it to the US EHT v FCC case, where the DC Court of Appeals has given the FCC four weeks to explain non-compliance with a 2021 court order.

Note: Environmental Health Trust (US NGO founded by Dr. Devra Davis) covers the same 24 July 2026 Italian Supreme Court ruling we reported via PhoneGate Alert (Italian Supreme Court: iPhone maker must warn on RF risks even under scientific uncertainty (Cassazione 24015/2026)). This EHT piece adds US framing — Dr. Devra Davis ties the Italian precedent to the parallel EHT v FCC 2021 case in the DC Court of Appeals, which recently gave the FCC four weeks to explain its non-compliance.

"Scientific uncertainty does not eliminate the duty to warn."

— Environmental Health Trust

"If credible scientific evidence suggests a plausible health risk, a manufacturer may have duties to inform consumers and reduce exposure even if a causal relationship has not been conclusively established."

— Environmental Health Trust

"Congratulations to attorney Fabio Cardanobile, who has won "the right to know" for Italian consumers about why and how to use wireless radiating devices in ways that can lessen exposures. Sadly, Americans do not share in this right to know about safer technology. The ball is in the FCC court now."

— Dr. Devra Davis, Environmental Health Trust founder and treasurer

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