First They Came For the Robot Surgeons: Intuitive Surgical Getting Sued Eight Ways from Sunday (ISRG)

The stock is down $5.22 at $572.71.

Apologies to the literary estate of Pastor Niemöller for the "First they came for" line and to our erudite readers for the headline colloquialism.

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I've no idea of the merits of the cases or the skill of the barristers but it appears something is going on.