5th Circ. Wonders If Flock Cameras Align With 4th Amendment

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel on Monday pressed the federal government to explain how law enforcement's use of Flock cameras to track criminal suspects without obtaining a search warrant doesn't run afoul of the Fourth Amendment, questioning prosecutors' assertion that publicly observable movements enjoy no protections.

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NJ Panel Tosses Geofence Warrant, Upending Robbery Case

By Parker Quinlan

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that police were incorrectly granted a geofence warrant because their application failed to establish a "nexus" between a string of gas station robberies and a potential suspect's cellphone location data.

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Spirit's Data Sale To Google Protects Consumers, Court Told

By Hailey Konnath

Spirit Airlines and Google have taken "consequential steps" to protect the privacy of millions of consumers whose data is being sold as part of the airline's bankruptcy, a consumer privacy ombudsman said in a report lodged in New York federal bankruptcy court Monday.

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Pega's Hidden AI Tool Listens To US Bank Calls, Suit Says

By Carolyn Muyskens

Software company Pegasystems Inc.'s artificial intelligence-powered "assistant" secretly listens to U.S. Bank's customer service calls, according to a proposed class action brought under various states' wiretapping laws.

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Eckert Seamans Says Data Breach Harm Is Only Speculative

By James Boyle

Pittsburgh-based law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday a pair of proposed class actions claiming damages from a data breach at the firm have not made specific complaints of actual harm caused by the breach and should be dismissed.

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DOJ, Google Want DC Circ. 'Priority' For Search Appeal

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice and Google jointly asked the D.C. Circuit to prioritize their cross-appeals in the search monopolization case in order to schedule oral arguments as soon as Dec. 9.

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DOJ, Google Differ On Ad Tech Fix Timing, Oversight

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice and Google offered disagreement Friday largely on relatively discreet points for the mandates meant to open up Google's advertising placement technology dominance, in a Virginia federal court filing where disputes centered heavily on how long the tech company has to implement changes and who'll monitor its compliance.

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FCC Boots Call Provider From US Networks Over Robocalls

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has officially blocked a Denver-based voice call provider from operating in the United States because it never assuaged the agency's concerns about what it's going to do to stop illegal robocalls from being transmitted on its network.

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Feds Wrap Up Case In $53M Uranium Finance Theft Trial

By Stewart Bishop

Manhattan federal prosecutors Monday concluded their case against a Maryland cybersecurity consultant accused of stealing about $53 million in crypto from Uranium Finance, a two-pronged heist that purportedly capitalized on "bugs" in smart contracts and brought about the end of the short-lived decentralized exchange.

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Crypto 'Godfather' Who Hired Cops To Extort Gets 6.5 Years

By Rae Ann Varona

A Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency businessman who called himself "The Godfather" was sentenced Monday to more than six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $23 million in restitution for getting Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to harass his enemies and for separately stealing from Meta, federal prosecutors announced.

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Kalshi Says User's Express Consent Bars Data Privacy Suit

By Gina Kim

Kalshi urged a California federal court to end a proposed class action alleging the prediction market shared user information through third-party tracking tools, arguing Friday the plaintiff expressly consented to the alleged interceptions through Kalshi's privacy policy, which discloses the use of online advertising technologies, including Google Analytics.

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Verogen Genealogy Website Can't Escape DNA Privacy Suit

By Joyce Hanson

A California federal judge has preserved a proposed class action against the owner-operator of a genetic genealogy website, finding that the plaintiffs sufficiently showed that a technical loophole wrongly let law enforcement circumvent user opt-out privacy settings.

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AppLovin Skirts Controls To Show Kids Explicit Ads, Suit Says

By Lauren Berg

The county of San Diego lodged a lawsuit Monday alleging digital advertising platform AppLovin Corp. strips away parental controls meant to shield children from sexual and violent material in order to steer graphic ads to children and harvest their sensitive information to train its artificial intelligence.

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Roblox Escapes Artist's AI Copyright Claims, For Now

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has allowed Roblox Corp. to duck claims from a 3D artist that his work had its copyright management information removed when it was used to train artificial intelligence but gave the artist a chance to remedy the issues with his suit.

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High Court Won't Take Up Maine Lobster Boat Tracking Suit

By Allison Grande

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a constitutional challenge to Maine's tracking of vessels that hold federal lobster permits, a policy several lobster fishermen claimed violated their privacy rights.

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Justices Won't Hear Corporate Transparency Act Challenges

By Kevin Pinner

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear two cases challenging the Corporate Transparency Act, a law designed to establish a national beneficial ownership registry for law enforcement agencies investigating shell companies that was severely curtailed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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Securities Roundup: 7 Rulings You May Have Missed

By Jessica Corso

Federal judges from California to New York and several states in between issued a slew of decisions last week that determined the fates of shareholder lawsuits against a major health insurer, a New York bank that nearly failed in 2024 and a diagnostic company accused of hiding its challenges as COVID testing demand ebbed. 

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Jones Day Expands IP Team In San Francisco, Amsterdam

By Dani Kass

Jones Day has brought on an Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP partner and NautaDutilh's former technology group leader as partners in its intellectual property practice, the firm told Law360.

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Meta Smart Glasses Suit Will Test Privacy Law For Bystanders

In a consolidated suit over how Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses handle personal video footage, a recently proposed class of unwittingly recorded bystanders highlights questions over whether privacy laws and product disclosures adequately address the risks wearable recording devices pose to nonusers, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.

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Analysis

Judge Clevenger's Intellect Defined His Time On Fed. Circ.

By Dani Kass

Newly retired Federal Circuit Judge Raymond Clevenger has an "exceptionally keen intellect" that allowed him to spot holes or new paths in cases that the parties or fellow panel members hadn't explored, his former colleagues told Law360.

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Sotomayor Warns Judges: Don't Scare Your Jurors

By Brandon Lowrey

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday criticized an Alabama trial court judge who frightened a pool of prospective jurors by ordering the arrest of a latecomer to jury selection, saying in a statement accompanying a denial of certiorari in the case that fear can undermine a defendant's right to an impartial jury.

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Quinn Emanuel Seeks $750K After Defeating Buzbee Suits

By Lynn LaRowe

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is seeking nearly $750,000 in attorney fees after defeating claims in Texas state court that it conspired with rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against prominent Houston plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee and two of his former clients.

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9th Circ. Pauses Rogoff's Return As Seattle US Atty

By Jack Karp

The Ninth Circuit has put on hold a Washington federal judge's decision to reinstate Roger Rogoff as Seattle's top federal prosecutor, a post Rogoff held for less than an hour before he was fired by President Donald Trump.

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Jackson Walker Deal Stalled By Standing Issue, Trustee Says

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Trustee's Office told a Texas federal judge that its settlement with Jackson Walker LLP to disgorge fees from cases touched by scandal is on ice while a bankruptcy judge examines the watchdog's standing to seek such relief.

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