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May 27, 2026
The Third Circuit has refused to revive a proposed class action accusing the now-defunct Spirit Airlines of recording communications by visitors to its website, finding the plaintiffs voluntarily provided information to look for flights and that, at any rate, many understand "'that what we do on the Internet is not completely private.'"
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May 27, 2026
Gaming and chat platform Roblox, the subject of multiple lawsuits accusing it of harming minors with addictive design features that expose them to online abuse, is now facing an investigation by the Connecticut attorney general.
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May 27, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires granted three petitions for inter partes review in his newest bulk order and broke down why he previously rejected CyberSecure IPS LLC's challenge to a Network Integrity Systems Inc. optical fibers monitoring patent.
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May 27, 2026
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he's nominating state Judge Matthew Byrne as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Ohio.
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May 26, 2026
A group of 44 attorneys general for states including California, New York, New Jersey and Michigan have created a coalition opposing the House version of the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, H.R. 7757, and signed a letter to congressional leaders pointing out the shortcomings of the bill.
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May 26, 2026
Microsoft has urged a Washington federal judge to throw out a proposed class action from Illinois residents who claim the company's Teams software wrongfully creates biometric "voiceprints" of meeting participants, arguing that its "routine transcription functions" don't count as voiceprints because they're not personally identifying.
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May 26, 2026
Fintech platform MoneyLion is looking to escape proposed class claims that it has violated Washington state laws with its customer referral program, arguing the allegations fail to show that the company helped users send referral messages to nonconsenting third parties.
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May 26, 2026
Wiley Rein LLP has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Washington, D.C., firm of negligence after the firm said a group that may be affiliated with the Chinese government accessed emails of firm personnel.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday passed on Meta's appeal in the Vermont state attorney general's suit alleging that the social media giant designed its platforms to be addictive to young people at the cost of their mental health.
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May 26, 2026
A telecommunications company and internet provider failed to protect personal and health information from a data breach that exposed affected individuals to identity theft and fraud, a proposed class action filed in Colorado federal court alleged.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court won't hear a challenge to the search of a registered sex offender's phone during a traffic stop by Missouri police, leaving in place an Eighth Circuit ruling that the man's consent was valid even after several requests by police.
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May 26, 2026
A Michigan federal judge Tuesday dismissed two class actions seeking to hold a hospital in the state responsible for a 2024 data breach that patients and employees allege had exposed their personal information, finding the lawsuits are outside the district court's jurisdiction.
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May 26, 2026
A Virginia man convicted of cyberstalking three Connecticut judges was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison over blog posts described by prosecutors as having crossed the line from protected speech into criminal threats, though the blogger maintains the First Amendment protects him.
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May 22, 2026
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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May 22, 2026
A former federal prosecutor who worked on Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection cases sued Friday over the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund created by President Donald Trump's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service, calling it a "slush fund" that's "on a collision course with the United States Constitution."
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May 22, 2026
A California federal judge's recent use of advisory juries for high-profile tech disputes — including Elon Musk's OpenAI for-profit conversion challenge and states' social-media addiction fight with Meta — is an uncommon practice that's intended as a "reality check" for judges deciding "socially explosive" disputes, according to legal experts.
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May 22, 2026
A California federal judge has significantly narrowed a proposed class action accusing the operator of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com of allowing third parties to track the browsing activities of website visitors who rejected the use of cookies, cutting all the plaintiffs' allegations except for a single claim under the pen register provision of the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
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May 22, 2026
An email that Roblox Corp. sent to opposing counsel asking for an account username and saying that it was seeking to compel arbitration after it lost a bid to dismiss a parent's suit could be "damning" for the popular gaming company, a Ninth Circuit judge suggested on Friday.
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May 22, 2026
Cox Media Group and two other companies have agreed to collectively pay $930,000 to settle the Federal Trade Commission's allegations that the companies falsely represented the capabilities of an "active listening" artificial intelligence marketing service, according to an announcement made Thursday.
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May 22, 2026
A group of Illinois car dealerships are not eligible for insurance coverage in connection with a proposed class action alleging their use of an employee fingerprint scanner violated state privacy law, according to an insurer's complaint in Illinois federal court.
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May 22, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel has backed a trial court's decision to enforce a separation settlement between a metro Atlanta city and its former city manager, ruling that he could not escape his attorney's clear-cut acceptance of the city's offer when she wrote that "we have a deal."
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May 22, 2026
The Texas attorney general launched a lawsuit against Discord Inc. on Friday, accusing the platform of enabling child sexual exploitation and lying about its safety to parents and the wider public.
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May 22, 2026
Three Democratic lawmakers, citing worries about spying, asked the U.S. Department of Justice to ban the sale of phone location data from sensitive sites, such as the White House, to "hostile foreign nations" like Russia, Iran and China.
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May 22, 2026
A California magistrate judge Thursday sent to arbitration a proposed class action alleging Nvidia secretly installed third-party tracking cookies even after users clicked "decline all" on its website, saying the cookie banner included a hyperlink to terms of service that included an agreement to arbitrate disputes.
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May 22, 2026
Seventh Circuit panelists have expressed skepticism that text messages could be considered "telephone calls" under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's do-not-call provisions.