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• March 18, 2026

  How Employers Can Limit Exposure To Data Breach Litigation

  Employers must invest in robust cybersecurity and incident response protocols to both prevent data breaches and position themselves favorably in potential litigation, as legal defenses will increasingly rely on demonstrating reasonable security measures, prompt breach notification and transparent response efforts, says Gerald Maatman at Duane Morris.

• March 17, 2026

  Verizon Can't Ditch Core Claims In Business Data Breach Suit

  Verizon must continue to face the bulk of a proposed class action over alleged "email bomb attacks" targeting its business customers, after a New York federal judge found that the nonprofit pressing the suit had established a concrete injury stemming from the data breach and had adequately asserted a trio of negligence, contract and California consumer protection law claims.

• March 17, 2026

  Instagram Layers Backups To Catch Bad Content, Jury Told

  Instagram's algorithm data head told a New Mexico jury Tuesday that Meta layers processes to ward against harmful content, so if a violating post is missed and starts going viral, it can be caught by a backstop.

• March 17, 2026

  Were Musk's Tweets 'Deliberate' Or 'Stupid'? Jury To Decide

  Elon Musk made "deliberate and carefully devised" statements to drive down Twitter's stock price after offering $44 billion for the company, Twitter investors' counsel told a California federal jury during closing arguments Tuesday, while Musk's lawyer insisted that there's no evidence of securities fraud and that it's not a crime to "tweet stupid things."

• March 17, 2026

  Fragrance Co. Inks $11M Icebreaker Deal In Price-Fixing Case

  A group of consumers asked a New Jersey federal judge Monday to preliminarily sign off on an $11 million class settlement with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc., which the consumers called an "icebreaker" deal cut in sprawling price-fixing antitrust litigation against four major fragrance ingredient makers.

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