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  • August 24, 2026

    Calif. Appeals Court Signals Wiretap Law Applies To Trackers

    A California state appeals court appears poised to declare that website tracking technologies generally qualify as pen registers under the state's wiretap law, while finding that the specific trackers at issue in a lawsuit against Variety Media LLC don't fall under this definition because they don't identify the destination of intercepted communications. 

  • August 24, 2026

    9th Circ. Faults Calif. Judge For Denying Sentence Reduction

    The Ninth Circuit on Monday vacated a prison sentence imposed on a man convicted of possessing ammunition as a felon, saying a California federal judge "misapprehended the law" when he denied a sentencing reduction for the defendant's acceptance of responsibility.

  • August 24, 2026

    WikiHow Says ChatGPT Spits Out How-To Guides Verbatim

    WikiHow has accused OpenAI in New York federal court of mass-scale copying of the how-to instruction site's copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT and generate near- or full-verbatim reproductions of wikiHow's "distinctive" instructional articles.

  • August 24, 2026

    DOJ Seeks To Beat UC Researchers' Challenge Of Grant Axings

    The U.S. Department of Justice argued on Friday that the Trump administration should prevail over University of California researchers' challenges of the termination of their grants, telling a California federal judge that the First Amendment doesn't apply to competitively awarded grants.

  • August 24, 2026

    Fiat Chrysler Brings Defective Headrest Suit To Justices

    Fiat Chrysler is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split over whether an arbitrator or a court should decide the proper venue for a dispute involving a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement, in a proposed class action over allegedly defective Jeep and Dodge headrests.

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