TikTok Let Minors See Harmful Content, Texas Judge Finds

By Jonathan Capriel

Texas scored significant wins in its lawsuit accusing TikTok of exposing children to harmful content while misrepresenting the app's safety, with a state judge ruling that the social media company violated state law by misleading consumers about its content-moderation practices and the effectiveness of its "restricted mode" feature.

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Bongino Disavows Inside Knowledge On Parler Ouster

By Cara Salvatore

Former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino testified Friday that he was not privy to decisions leading to social media company Parler's 2021 ouster of its CEO, but he was pressed over having seen a draft of the document revision that supposedly allowed the CEO's 40% interest to be confiscated.

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Wis. Groups Say Warrantless Flock Searches Violate Chatrie

By Parker Quinlan

Wisconsin privacy groups have sued a group of local governments over their warrantless searches of Flock Group Inc. camera data, arguing that they run afoul of the Fourth Amendment after the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Chatrie v. U.S.

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Greenberg Traurig, Eckert Seamans Hit By Data Breaches

By Ryan Boysen

Greenberg Traurig LLP and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC have publicly revealed that they've been hit by data breaches, adding to the dozens of cybersecurity incidents U.S. law firms have suffered this year.

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NC Biz Court OKs Data Breach Deal But Shrinks Atty Fees

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina Business Court judge gave his final seal of approval to a class action data breach settlement with an eye care provider but slashed the amount of attorney fees he would allow, saying the deal was fair but "by no means extraordinary."

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ABA Cyber Task Force Co-Chair Eyes AI Education Boost

By Allison Grande

With the legal industry presenting a more and more enticing target for cyberattacks, it's becoming increasingly important for practitioners to know how to best protect clients' data and most effectively use emerging artificial intelligence tools — a task that the American Bar Association's Cybersecurity Legal Task Force is well positioned to assist with, its incoming co-chair recently told Law360.

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Corp. Transparency Law Unconstitutional, Justices Told

By Kevin Pinner

The Supreme Court should find that the Corporate Transparency Act is unconstitutional to prevent a future administration from reviving its application to domestic entities, the National Small Business Association told the justices.

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IRS Can Withhold Docs That May Air Taxpayer ID, Court Rules

By Zak Kostro

The IRS may withhold documents sought by a tax news publisher, a Washington, D.C., federal judge said, finding the subject is prominent enough that disclosing the records could allow the taxpayer to be identified using a former IRS contractor's leak of President Donald Trump's tax returns and thousands of others.

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Meta 'Voiceprint' Privacy Suit Turns On Use Terms, Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge mulling Meta's motion to dismiss a proposed class action claiming the tech giant secretly and unlawfully captures Facebook users' "voiceprints" and related biometric information said he'd review the social media platform's privacy and use terms, which he said would be "controlling."

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Lemonade Gets Final OK For $10.5M Data Breach Settlement

By Mike Curley

A New York federal judge has granted final approval to a $10.5 million settlement to end consolidated claims that Lemonade Inc. negligently exposed 190,000 people's driver's license numbers to cybercriminals.

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Conduent Settles Claims Over Data Breach That Affected 44M

By George Woolston

Conduent Business Services LLC has reached a deal to resolve plaintiffs' claims in a proposed class action alleging it failed to adequately protect sensitive personal and health information of more than 44 million individuals, according to filings from both parties.

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CVS Renews Bid To Escape Investors' AI Use Suit

By Jessica Corso

CVS Health Corp. wants a second shot at dismissing a lawsuit accusing it of inflating its revenues through the use of artificial intelligence, arguing investors haven't shown it was using the technology to deny prior authorization requests. 

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Attorneys Using AI May Have Ethical Duty To Redact Docs

The trajectory of legal ethics guidance in recent years strongly suggests that as redaction technology becomes more accessible, the failure to use it when uploading highly confidential materials into artificial intelligence tools will become increasingly difficult to defend as reasonable, say attorneys at Lewis Brisbois.

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Big Biz Coalition Backs Litigation Funding Disclosure Rule

By Ryan Boysen

Big U.S. businesses and insurers like Amazon, Anthropic, Chubb and Walmart asked the federal judiciary on Monday to tighten disclosure requirements for litigation finance, claiming the lack of guardrails allows funders to operate "in the shadows."

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Indiana Atty Hit With $10K Sanction Over False Citations

By Andrea Keckley

An Indiana federal judge on Friday adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation to sanction a local attorney $10,000 after finding that five briefs in a consumer credit case included citations to nonexistent cases.

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Jackson Lewis Removes Ex-Atty's Bias Suit To Federal Court

By Patrick Hoff

Jackson Lewis PC has moved a former associate's suit accusing the firm of refusing to accommodate her temporary work restrictions following her medical leave to California federal court, saying state court wasn't the right venue for dispute.

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Bove Rejects Recusal Bid Tied To DOJ Whistleblower Claims

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove declined Monday to recuse himself in a Third Circuit immigration case, saying the attorneys for the petitioner are "recycling a failed pre-confirmation political smear" on him.

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State Farm Attorney Sanctioned $999.99 For AI Hallucinations

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney for State Farm who filed several motions citing nonexistent cases and fabricated quotes generated by AI software must pay a $999.99 sanction, a Los Angeles judge ruled, an amount one cent below the threshold that would have triggered a mandatory notice to the State Bar of California under state law.

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Ex-Moses & Singer Partner Gets 10 Months For Tax Crimes

By Craig Clough

A Connecticut federal judge Monday sentenced a former Moses & Singer LLP partner to 10 months of imprisonment and ordered him to pay more than $3.1 million for failing to file personal income tax returns, the U.S. attorney's office announced.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week saw disputes over allegedly fabricated board approvals at a telecom infrastructure startup, insider trading and child safety at Roblox Corp. and ownership of artificial intelligence technology used in legal proceedings.

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