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April 02, 2026
A class action against the federal government and contractor Booz Allen Hamilton seeking to hold them accountable for the unauthorized disclosure of a trove of wealthy people's tax returns by a worker on the job with the IRS can move forward, a Maryland federal judge said.
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April 02, 2026
North Carolina Attorney General Jeffrey Jackson urged the state's Supreme Court to make TikTok's parent company face claims that it's addictive to juvenile users, arguing the social media giant had enough contact with the Tarheel State to be subject to its courts' jurisdiction.
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April 02, 2026
Interactive Games accused DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Inc. of infringing various patents to confirm the identity and location of mobile devices and their users to facilitate online gambling and sports betting, in separate lawsuits brought Thursday in Massachusetts and New Jersey federal courts.
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April 02, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Thursday said it won't restore a Centripetal Networks cybersecurity patent challenged by Keysight Technologies Inc. after being sued in federal court, backing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that it was invalid.
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April 01, 2026
A Washington federal judge significantly narrowed a lawsuit accusing Amazon of surreptitiously recording Alexa device users' personal conversations, finding that the company had clearly disclosed the possibility of accidental device activations and that only some unregistered users had adequately asserted individual wiretap claims.
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April 01, 2026
A California federal judge has refused to certify proposed classes of consumers accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of illegally collecting sensitive financial data from tax preparation websites, finding that the currently proposed classes are "significantly" broad and would likely invite statute-of-limitations defenses that would require "extensive individual inquiries" into each class member.
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April 01, 2026
The Seventh Circuit held Wednesday that a liability-limiting amendment to Illinois' biometric privacy law applies to every lawsuit pending at the time the amendment took effect, ruling that the amendment is only a procedural change to the law and, therefore, must be applied retroactively.
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April 01, 2026
April is the coolest month, at least for appellate aficionados, featuring numerous important arguments with famous litigants, including U.S. senators, delivery apps Grubhub and Uber Eats, impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs, prediction platforms Kalshi and Robinhood, and a political giant known as the Velvet Hammer.
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April 01, 2026
Perplexity shares users of its AI machine's most personal questions and conversational dialogues — which could include mental and physical health issues and legal advice — with Meta and Google, which exploit the information for profit and targeted advertising purposes, alleges a proposed class action filed Monday in California federal court.
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April 01, 2026
The Federal Circuit argument calendar for this month includes Centripetal Networks' appeal of a decision clearing Cisco of infringing cybersecurity patents after a multibillion-dollar award was thrown out, as well as Ecobee's challenge to an $11.5 million infringement verdict involving smart thermostats.
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April 01, 2026
U.S. Bancorp escaped a suit calling its use of Meta's Pixel a "highly offensive" intrusion that shares bank website user information with Meta without users' consent, with a Minnesota federal judge ruling the plaintiff does not specify what information he shared with the bank or how it was used.
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April 01, 2026
A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from civil rights groups who sued the state in a challenge to its process of removing voters from the rolls, ruling that money spent advocating against a new voting law and potential future harm to the groups' members was not enough to convey standing.
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April 01, 2026
Counsel for Google users who won a $425 million class action trial over claims the company unlawfully collected their information have urged a California federal judge to give them nearly $147 million in legal fees, even as both sides filed motions seeking to unwind aspects of the verdict.
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April 01, 2026
Two cyber insurers don't owe coverage to a Mississippi law firm after a fraudster used a false identity to hoodwink the firm out of more than $158,000 by procuring legal services to secure an owed debt that turned out to be fake, a federal court has ruled.
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April 01, 2026
The U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services must continue facing claims that they illegally gave Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to employee records, as a D.C. federal judge denied the agencies' bid to escape the union-brought allegations before the trial phase.
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April 01, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission's leadership wants the public to weigh in on how regulators can help the U.S. private sector reach global dominance in drone manufacturing and operations.
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April 01, 2026
A federal judge has narrowed a lawsuit over Roku's handling of children's data, finding Michigan lacked standing to litigate several of the claims on behalf of users while allowing others to proceed.
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April 01, 2026
Staples Inc. was hit Tuesday with its third lawsuit in two weeks over a reported cyberattack by ransomware group CoinbaseCartel that may have exposed employee data.
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March 31, 2026
Privacy regulators from California, Connecticut and two other states said Tuesday that their behind-the-scenes enforcement work will soon yield public actions that focus not only on established topics such as consumer opt-outs and transparency, but also fresh issues like harms stemming from artificial intelligence and ensuring fines are more than just "a cost of doing business."
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March 31, 2026
A data privacy firm suing a Czech website operator over its alleged violations of a New Jersey anti-harassment law for public servants is fighting a bid to send the dispute to arbitration in Prague, arguing that its claim would effectively be extinguished in the European capital.
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March 31, 2026
Prince Harry in a rare public appearance Tuesday added his voice to those calling for stronger laws to protect both children and adults from having their data misused and privacy invaded online, arguing that a pair of recent "historic" verdicts in social media addiction litigation emphasized how digital platforms are "being built to exploit, not protect."
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March 31, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission wants to block the importation of telecommunications gear that was put on its so-called covered list — a list of equipment the agency has deemed poses national security risks — before it had passed rules banning the authorization of such equipment.
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March 31, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Monday refused Apple's bid to reconsider part of a panel decision in Epic Games Inc.'s favor that largely affirmed an injunction blocking Apple from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its payment systems, declining to clarify what fees Apple can charge.
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March 31, 2026
The 2016 outcome of a robocall blocker's lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois bars the same company from pursuing similar claims that it filed against Synchrony Financial in Connecticut, a federal judge has ruled in tossing the latest case for good.
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March 31, 2026
A California federal judge has ordered that a case brought by Reddit Inc. claiming Anthropic PBC improperly gathered user content to train its large language models be sent back to state court, finding that each of Reddit's allegations have extra elements that defeat federal preemption.