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April 08, 2026
Ropes & Gray Adds Cybersecurity Atty From Justice Dept.
Ropes & Gray LLP has hired a new data, privacy and cybersecurity practice partner, who has joined the team in Washington after spending more than a decade working for the Justice Department, the firm announced Tuesday.
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April 08, 2026
4 Firms Advise On Blackline Safety's Over $600M PE Buyout
Canada's Blackline Safety Corp., a maker of employee safety monitoring technology, said Wednesday it has agreed to be acquired by a Francisco Partners Management LP affiliate in a deal valued at up to CA$850 million ($614 million), with four law firms advising between the two parties.
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April 07, 2026
Feds Say Iranian Hackers Are Targeting 'Critical' Infrastructure
A handful of federal agencies issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday warning that Iranian-affiliated hackers are taking aim at "critical infrastructure," including drinking water and wastewater systems, leading to multiple disruptions across various sectors.
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April 07, 2026
Musk Wants Altman Out, Not To Boost 'Himself Personally'
Elon Musk said Tuesday he wants OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stripped of his title and "all equity and other personal financial benefits" to be awarded to OpenAI's nonprofit if Musk wins his case claiming OpenAI duped him, saying he isn't after "a remedy directed to benefiting himself personally."
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April 07, 2026
LinkedIn Users Sue Over Secret Browser Extension Tracking
LinkedIn is facing two proposed class actions in California federal court alleging the networking platform has touted its anti-fraud and anti-data scraping efforts as cover for its surreptitious scanning of users' browser extensions, which often contain sensitive information, before sharing that data with third parties.
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April 07, 2026
TD Bank Says It's Not To Blame For $1.1M Sent To Scammer
TD Bank has asked a Connecticut state court judge to strike a contracting company's claims that the bank should face liability after the company sent $1.1 million to a scammer, pointing out in its filings that the company's own representative handed over TD Bank login credentials to the fraudster.
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April 07, 2026
USA Today Escapes Website User Tracking Suit, For Now
A California judge has shut down a proposed class action accusing USA Today of deploying tracking technology that illegally transmits information about website visitors' browsing activities to third parties, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to allege the type of concrete injury necessary to sustain their claims, while leaving the door open for their pleadings to be amended.
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April 07, 2026
Data Breach Counsel Chided For Flouting NC Court Rules
Two attorneys looking to temporarily helm a series of putative data breach class actions targeting a radiology firm have failed to become interim co-lead class counsel, as a North Carolina Business Court judge chided them for not following rules and filing a procedurally deficient motion.
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April 07, 2026
Delaware Chancery OKs $190M Meta Privacy Settlement
The Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday approved a $190 million settlement resolving long-running stockholder claims that Meta Platforms Inc. mishandled user privacy and board oversight in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, closing out a case that had stretched more than seven years and reached the second day of trial.
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April 07, 2026
Cisco's Win After Sunk 10-Figure Judgment Eyed By Fed. Circ.
A Federal Circuit panel on Tuesday grappled with whether a Virginia federal judge got it right when she found that Cisco did not infringe three Centripetal Networks cybersecurity patents, after the appeals court discarded a multibillion-dollar judgment against Cisco due to another judge's stock conflict.
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April 07, 2026
Security Guard's Suit Alleging Gender Bias Fails At 10th Circ.
The Tenth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a former security guard's lawsuit alleging he was fired for complaining that his supervisor gave female employees preferential treatment, finding he failed to show that managers knew about his report to human resources.
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April 07, 2026
DOD Opposes DJI's Push To Undo FCC Product Ban
The U.S. Department of Defense urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject DJI's reconsideration petition after the FCC restricted much of the China-based drone maker's business in the U.S., saying the government's underlying national security determination is correct.
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April 07, 2026
John Deere Inks $99M Deal In Farmers' Right-To-Repair Suit
John Deere has agreed to pay $99 million to a putative class of farmers to resolve claims that it limits competition for farm equipment repairs by preventing unaffiliated shops from acquiring the necessary tools, and will also provide injunctive relief that would allow those independent repair providers to be able to diagnose and fix John Deere-brand agricultural equipment.
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April 07, 2026
BakerHostetler Adds Davis Wright Privacy Pro In LA
BakerHostetler announced Tuesday it has welcomed data privacy litigator Spencer Persson from Davis Wright Tremaine to its digital assets and data management practice group as partner, bringing in years of experience handling high-stakes privacy matters that will beef up the firm's privacy and digital risk class action and litigation team.
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April 06, 2026
Ore. Clinic Stuck With Privacy Suit Over LinkedIn Data Sharing
An Oregon federal judge has refused to throw out a putative class action accusing a fertility clinic of deploying tracking technology that illegally transmitted its website visitors' protected health information to LinkedIn for advertising purposes, finding that the plaintiff had adequately alleged that these disclosures violated federal health privacy law.
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April 06, 2026
Google, YouTube Want Out Of Disney Kids Data Privacy Suit
Google and YouTube moved Friday to exit a consolidated class action against them and Disney alleging they allowed advertisers to illegally collect minors' personal information, saying the entire case is based on the Federal Trade Commission's action against Disney that "made no accusations" against their companies "and for good reason."
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April 06, 2026
Citi Tells 2nd Circ. EFTA Exempts Wire Transfers 'End-To-End'
A Second Circuit panel Monday seemed responsive to Citibank's arguments that consumer-initiated electronic wire transfers are carved out from the Electronic Funds Transfer Act under a longstanding exemption in the statute, in a suit from the New York attorney general over the bank's response to online wire transfer fraud incidents.
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April 06, 2026
1st Circ. Suggests It May Resurrect AdTech Wiretap Case
A panel of the First Circuit appeared receptive Monday to reinstating federal wiretap claims leveled against a Massachusetts healthcare system over its use of online tracking tools, despite arguments that such a ruling could cripple the industry amid an influx of similar cases nationwide.
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April 06, 2026
Cleary FCA Task Force Head On Enforcement Trends To Watch
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace, who now leads a False Claims Act task force at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, is predicting a continued surge in enforcement as the Trump administration wields the law in new ways.
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April 06, 2026
IT Co. Fired Worker After She Asked About Raise, Suit Says
An office technology, IT and security services company fired an employee for questioning why a salary bump from a promotion wasn't reflected in her paycheck, the worker alleged in a suit in Georgia federal court.
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April 06, 2026
Apple Gets App Store Ruling Paused For High Court Appeal
The Ninth Circuit granted Apple's request Monday to pause a panel decision in Epic Games Inc.'s favor while it petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling, which largely affirmed an injunction barring Apple from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on certain iPhone app purchases made outside its payment systems.
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April 06, 2026
NJ Pharmacy Co. Sued Over Nursing Home Data Exposure
A New Jersey pharmacy for long-term care facilities is facing a proposed nationwide class action alleging it failed to safeguard highly sensitive patient information later accessed by cybercriminals, according to a complaint filed in federal court.
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April 06, 2026
Files Of 10 Jones Day Clients Breached In Cyberattack
Jones Day is the latest law firm to be hit by a cyberattack, the firm confirmed Monday, revealing that an unauthorized party accessed files of 10 clients.
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April 06, 2026
Nude Security Cam Appeal Befuddles Mass. High Court
Justices of Massachusetts' highest court seemed inclined Monday to uphold a Martha's Vineyard resident's conviction for secretly recording a sexual encounter on a home security camera, but questioned whether sending a still image to only the victim could support a second conviction for "dissemination."
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April 06, 2026
Justices Remand State Secrets Dispute In FBI Spying Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent back to the lower court a long-running putative class action over the FBI's alleged surveillance of Muslims in Southern California, a dispute the federal government has argued threatens to undermine vital protections for state secrets.
Expert Analysis
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Justices' Geofence Ruling May Test 4th Amendment's Future
When the U.S. Supreme Court decides in Chatrie v. U.S. whether law enforcement may use geofence warrants to compel Google to disclose location history data, the ruling is likely to become an important statement about the future of Fourth Amendment law in data-driven investigations, says Duncan Levin at Levin & Associates.
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Legal Theories In Social Media Verdicts Hold Clues On Impact
Although the two verdicts in cases in New Mexico and California involving Meta and Google are being lumped together, they rest on fundamentally different legal theories, and that distinction determines how their effects may be felt in other jurisdictions, says Mark Morgan at Day Pitney.
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AI Recruiting Suit Shows Old Laws May Implicate New Tools
The Fair Credit Reporting Act allegations recently filed in Kistler v. Eightfold AI, are the latest example of broad definitional language in legacy statutes proving far more dangerous to companies deploying artificial intelligence – particularly in hiring – than any purpose-built artificial intelligence regulation, say attorneys at Ogletree.
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A Check-Up On HHS' Push To Implement AI Infrastructure
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has made some headway in its efforts to implement artificial intelligence across its agencies, but will have to overcome a number of near-term tests in order to be successful, says Theodore Thompson at Stinson.
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What A Court Doc Audit Reveals About Erroneous Filings
My audit of 1,522 court documents from last month found that over 95% contained at least one verifiable error, with fewer than 1% showing clear indicators of artificial intelligence use — highlighting above all else that lawyers may want to focus most on strengthening their review processes, says Elliott Ash at ETH Zurich.
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How Cos. Can Navigate The Patchwork Of AI Safety Bills
In the first few months of 2026, state and federal lawmakers introduced hundreds of bills to address the perceived safety risks of artificial intelligence, so companies should assess whether existing or planned services could be scoped into AI safety legislation across jurisdictions, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Unpacking FCC's Proposed Rules For Offshore Call Centers
The Federal Communications Commission recently proposed rules that would restrict the use of offshore customer service operations, citing consumer frustration, data security risks and fraud as core reasons for the sweeping regulatory move, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.
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Ultramarathons Make Me A Better Lawyer
Completing a 100-mile ultramarathon was tougher, more humbling and more rewarding than I ever imagined, and the experience highlighted how long-distance running has sharpened my ability to adapt to the evolving nature of antitrust law and strengthened my resolve to handle demanding, unforeseen challenges, says Dan Oakes at Axinn.
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When AI Puffery Becomes Actionable Securities Fraud
Though courts usually hold that vague but optimistic corporate statements don’t constitute securities fraud, signs suggest that investors may give enough economic weight to references to artificial intelligence in public company disclosures that broad feel-good statements could cross into actionable misrepresentation, says Christine Polek at Keystone Strategy.
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In First For DOJ, Action Signals New CFIUS Enforcement Era
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking judicial enforcement of a divestment order, an unprecedented action for the agency that ushers in a new phase for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, one in which judicial proceedings complement administrative oversight and presidential divestment orders may be enforced through litigation, says attorney Sohan Dasgupta.
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Verdicts Signal Product Liability's Expansion To Digital Realm
Last week's landmark verdict in K.G.M. v. Meta Platforms Inc., along with other recent verdicts that apply product liability theories to online services that rely on algorithmic design and user engagement features, make it clear that companies must evaluate digital product design through a litigation lens, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Getting The Most Out Of Learning And Development Programs
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Junior associates can better develop the legal, business and interpersonal skills they need for long-term success by approaching their firms’ learning and development programs armed with five tips for getting the most out of these resources, says Lauren Hakala at Reed Smith.
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AI And Threats To Privilege In Financial Sector Probes
The recent spotlight on the potential for artificial intelligence platforms to serve as a source for discoverable information is especially important for financial institutions to understand, as the industry navigates increasingly complex regulatory expectations and AI tools become embedded in investigative efforts, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.
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Del. Blackbaud Ruling Signals A New Era For Cyberinsurance
The recent Delaware Supreme Court ruling in Travelers v. Blackbaud shows that cyberinsurance is moving into a second maturity phase, in which insurers will increasingly attempt to recover their payments from vendors and insureds will face new pressure to justify cyber incident reimbursements, say Steven Teppler at Mandelbaum Barrett and Jade Davis at Shumaker.
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How A High Court Music Piracy Ruling Shrinks ISP Liability
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion in Cox Communications Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, which concerned the boundaries of contributory copyright infringement for internet service providers, dramatically lessens both the risk that an ISP will be held contributorily liable and, relatedly, the incentives an ISP may have to help combat online copyright infringement, say attorneys at Debevoise.