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March 26, 2026
A California federal judge has placed evidentiary guardrails on an April jury trial over Elon Musk's claims OpenAI duped him, excluding evidence on Musk's ketamine use and WilmerHale's investigation into Sam Altman's dismissal, but allowing evidence on Musk's rival startup, his romance with an ex-OpenAI boardmember and his Burning Man trip.
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March 26, 2026
The Third Circuit on Thursday said the federal courts lacked jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Harriet Carter Gifts and a third-party company violated consumers' privacy rights under Pennsylvania wiretapping law by collecting their website browsing data, ordering the lower court to remand the case to state court.
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March 26, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission Thursday floated new rules to encourage the onshoring of customer call centers in the telecom industry.
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March 26, 2026
A real estate company faces a purported class action in North Carolina's Business Court accusing the firm of waiting months to notify its customers of a data breach in September and failing to disclose what kind of information was stolen.
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March 25, 2026
Cyberattacks targeting law firms jumped in 2025, according to a new BakerHostetler report, which also highlighted recent spikes across a wide range of sectors in ransomware payments and class action lawsuits stemming from these incidents.
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March 25, 2026
A vacation booking company's four principals must answer an Illinois class's asset citation bid as it works to collect a $47 million default judgment in a "troubling" 11-year-old Telephone Consumer Protection Act case, a federal judge ruled.
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March 25, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that Cox Communications is not liable for its customers' music piracy circumscribes the theories copyright owners may pursue for secondary infringement — limits that attorneys say will extend beyond internet service providers and influence litigation involving e-commerce platforms and artificial intelligence.
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March 25, 2026
A California state judge has trimmed Clorox's $380 million lawsuit accusing the cybersecurity company Cognizant of enabling a "catastrophic" 2023 cyberattack by voluntarily handing over Clorox employee passwords after hackers merely asked for them, tossing an intentional misrepresentation claim but keeping the bulk of the suit alive.
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March 25, 2026
A California federal judge rejected Extreme Networks' bid to dismiss a suit alleging it misled investors about its financial prospects and declining client demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the investors adequately pled that the cloud network equipment company engaged in a scheme to inflate revenues through so-called channel-stuffing.
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March 25, 2026
An anime streaming service's inadequate data security allowed hackers to gain access to an alleged 6.8 million unique email addresses and exfiltrate other personal information of subscribers, according to a proposed class action in California federal court.
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March 25, 2026
U.S. House committee lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday to reauthorize the First Responder Network Authority for more than a decade past its current sunset next February while adding two seats to the board for public safety experts.
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March 25, 2026
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed on Wednesday three bills intended to limit state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, strengthen privacy protections and require law enforcement officers — including federal agents — to identify themselves during public interactions.
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March 25, 2026
A California federal judge dismissed a proposed class action against Meta over ads on its platforms from scammers impersonating financial professionals to run pump-and-dump investment schemes, saying unlike recent cases that could "disrobe" Meta of immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the plaintiffs didn't allege Meta co-created the ads.
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March 25, 2026
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has sued federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and a former employee for leaking his tax returns along with a trove of confidential tax data on President Donald Trump and other wealthy people, adding to mounting litigation over the breach.
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March 25, 2026
A California state jury that found Meta and Google liable Wednesday for harming the mental health of a woman who says she became addicted to their social media platforms as a child delivered a second blow later in the day, awarding $3 million in punitive damages on top of a $3 million compensatory award.
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March 25, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Fourth Circuit incorrectly affirmed a jury verdict that found Cox Communications liable for its customers' music piracy, concluding there is a legal distinction between mere knowledge of infringement and intent to promote it.
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March 24, 2026
A California federal judge considering Anthropic's request to block the U.S. Department of Defense from labeling it a supply chain national security risk said Tuesday that it looks like the government is "punishing" Anthropic for bringing public attention to their contract fight, a move that would violate the First Amendment.
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March 24, 2026
The Trump administration on Tuesday agreed to bar three federal agencies from interfering with social media companies' content moderation, resolving a high-profile challenge to the Biden administration's efforts to combat the spread of misinformation in a case that went up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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March 24, 2026
A California federal judge mulling Meta's argument that its users' consent bars a proposed privacy class action pressed Meta's lawyers Tuesday on whether social expectations affect the bounds of that consent, observing that if she gave a friend permission to borrow her clothes, "I don't expect her to borrow my underwear."
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March 24, 2026
Baltimore on Tuesday became one of the first municipalities to sue Elon Musk's xAI over the Grok artificial intelligence platform's ability to transform ordinary photographs into nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images, including creating child sexual abuse material, saying it's exposing city residents to degrading content, harassment and psychological harm.
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March 24, 2026
Bank of America has asked a Florida federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing it of financial privacy violations tied to the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack, arguing the U.S. Supreme Court has held that bank customers do not have ownership or expectations of privacy over their bank account records.
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March 24, 2026
Robert Cook, CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, said Tuesday that it will soon be rolling out a clearinghouse for firms to report cybersecurity threats and to promote information sharing across the industry.
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March 24, 2026
An IT contractor said the Federal Circuit should reconsider a panel ruling upholding the U.S. Department of Commerce's authority to unilaterally take corrective action during litigation over a $1.5 billion procurement, warning it threatens to "devastate the bid protest process."
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March 24, 2026
A Heritage Bank customer claimed in a putative class action Tuesday that the Washington-based financial institution failed to properly guard users' personal data that was stolen in a March 1 cyberattack, alleging the company used substandard security practices and failed to update its systems on a timely basis.
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March 24, 2026
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a pair of bills on Tuesday requiring large artificial intelligence companies to embed data that distinguishes deepfakes as AI-generated and forcing companion chatbot developers to take steps to protect minor users from suicide and self-harm.