Facebook Investors Move For Class Cert. After High Court Test

By Jessica Corso

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP are pushing to lead a class of Facebook Inc. investors who claim to have lost billions of dollars in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying they are well-positioned to spearhead the case after defeating a U.S. Supreme Court challenge.

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Instagram Wants Teen 'Sessions,' Not Time, Tenn. Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

Instagram's top data scientist told a Tennessee jury Monday that the company's goal is to increase the amount of "sessions" by teens, not their raw amount of time in the app, though he admitted the latter metric has been on the rise.

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Dems Seek GAO Review Of Federal Agencies Hacking Americans

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement, have requested that the Government Accountability Office conduct a comprehensive review of federal law enforcement agencies' hacking of Americans' electronic devices.

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Social Media Giants Denied Pause Of Calif. Kids Algorithm Law

By Emily Field

A California federal judge on Friday again refused to block the Golden State law that bars social media companies from using algorithmic feeds to deliver content to children without parents' consent, telling Meta, Google and TikTok that predictive algorithms that show "interesting" content aren't protected free speech.

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Calif. Appeals Court Signals Wiretap Law Applies To Trackers

By Allison Grande

A California state appeals court appears poised to declare that website tracking technologies generally qualify as pen registers under the state's wiretap law, while finding that the specific trackers at issue in a lawsuit against Variety Media LLC don't fall under this definition because they don't identify the destination of intercepted communications. 

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FCC's Trusty Sees Need For Fresh Look At Universal Service

By Christopher Cole

Since taking a seat on the Federal Communications Commission more than a year ago, Olivia Trusty says her travels around some of the most rural parts of the country have convinced her of a need to bring the FCC's universal service programs up to date.

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Founder Of Crypto Startup Block Bits Convicted Of Fraud

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal jury on Monday held that cryptocurrency startup founder Japheth Dillman deceived Block Bits investors by falsely claiming the company's auto-trading platform was up and running, following a trial in which his co-founder testified against him under a plea agreement.

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Spirit Data Sale To Google Draws Objection From Springshot

By Emily Lever

Software company Springshot Inc. has filed a limited objection to the $10 million sale of Spirit Aviation Holdings' business data to Google LLC for artificial intelligence training, saying some of the data being sold could potentially constitute Springshot's intellectual property.

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Dolce & Gabbana Privacy Suit Dismissed For Lack Of Pa. Ties

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has thrown out putative privacy class claims alleging clothier Dolce & Gabbana tracked its website visitors' activities, ruling that the case did not have a strong enough connection to Pennsylvania to maintain jurisdiction.

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Google Says Publishers Can't Get 'Fake Privilege' Discovery

By Bryan Koenig

Google urged a New York federal judge not to grant additional discovery to a group of publishers targeting its advertising placement technology dominance in a wider multidistrict litigation, arguing claims of insufficient detail into corporate policies allegedly hiding evidence are belied by the volume of information already cited.

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WikiHow Says ChatGPT Spits Out How-To Guides Verbatim

By Rae Ann Varona

WikiHow has accused OpenAI in New York federal court of mass-scale copying of the how-to instruction site's copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT and generate near- or full-verbatim reproductions of wikiHow's "distinctive" instructional articles.

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DaVita, Patients Get Early Nod In $15M Data Breach Deal

By Hailey Konnath

A Colorado federal judge has given the initial green light to DaVita Inc.'s proposed $15 million settlement with millions of past and present patients who claim the healthcare company didn't adequately protect their personal information, which was exposed in an April 2025 breach, according to an order issued Friday.

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AI Co. Perplexity Moves To Trim CNN Infringement Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Perplexity has urged a New York federal judge to significantly pare down CNN's lawsuit accusing the artificial intelligence developer of infringing the network's stories, videos and images without permission, saying it can't be held liable for automated responses that its "answer engine" gives to user prompts.

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AGs Want Meta's Privilege Claims Reviewed In Bellwether Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.  

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Legal Center Says DOJ Is Stonewalling Fund Records Request

By Jared Foretek

A voting rights nonprofit is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of stonewalling a request for records on the Trump administration's attempted "anti-weaponization fund," claiming that the agency has spent the summer unlawfully ducking a Freedom of Information Act submission.

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Galindo Law Files For Ch. 11 After Camp Lejeune Fee Fight

By Ben Zigterman

A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

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Attys Ask Court To Toss Suit Alleging They Stole 1,000 Cases

By Spencer Brewer

Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw a wave of lawsuits involving corporate oversight, take-private deals, financing transactions, bankruptcy fallout, stockholder voting rights and disputes over control.

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