Meta Lied About Data Privacy, New Mexico Jury Finds

By Cara Salvatore

A New Mexico jury said Friday that Meta lied willfully on 26 different occasions regarding data privacy, hate speech, misinformation and Facebook's outside investigation of third-party app developers after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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TikTok To Pay At Least $100M, Curb Teen Use In Alabama Deal

By Lauren Berg

TikTok agreed to pay at least $100 million and implement usage limits, age verification and other safety measures in a landmark settlement to resolve Alabama's claims the social media platform harmed children and misled users about its safety, the state's attorney general announced Friday.

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Supreme Court Revives DHS Voter Citizenship Database

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

The Trump administration can reinstate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's upgraded citizenship verification database ahead of this year's midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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Analysis

Prediction Market Regulators, Bad Actors In AI Arms Race

By Chris Villani

Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in policing prediction markets, and attorneys say that regulators and investigators are starting to effectively use the same technology that would-be bad actors have leveraged to try to score big with their bets.

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DC Circ. Denies Anthropic's Security Risk Suit Against DOD

By Madeline Lyskawa

A divided D.C. Circuit panel ruled Friday the Pentagon was justified in citing national security concerns to exclude Anthropic's suite of Claude artificial intelligence models from its supply chain.

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US Backs Elon Musk In €120M EU Digital Transparency Case

By Sophia Dourou

The U.S. has announced it will join Elon Musk in a bid to overturn a €120 million ($137 million) fine imposed by the European Commission on social media platform X for breaching the bloc's digital transparency rules.

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Astrana Health Reveals Spoofing Attack Targeting Private Data

By Allison Grande

An Astrana Health unit was the target of a "series" of social engineering cyberattacks in which hackers impersonated the company's employees to gain access to systems that contained private and confidential information about patients and others, the healthcare provider disclosed in a recent regulatory filing. 

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9th Circ. OKs Class Cert. In Classmates.com Name Use Case

By Elliot Weld

The Ninth Circuit has approved a lower court's certification of a class of Californians suing over their names appearing in the yearbooks platform Classmates.com, rejecting a number of challenges from the website's operator, including that the lead plaintiff couldn't adequately represent the class.

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Ex-Soldier Gets 70-Month Sentence For Telecom Hack Scheme

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge on Friday sentenced a former U.S. Army soldier to 70 months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution for his role in extorting telecommunication companies by hacking their systems and holding sensitive data hostage for ransom.  

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Cox Can't Recoup $15M In DMCA Suit Costs From Insurers

By David Aaro

A Georgia federal judge backed two insurers in a lawsuit by Cox Enterprises that alleged it was wrongly denied coverage for more than $15 million it racked up in separate litigation with a music publisher, saying the claims were not covered under Cox's policies.

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Judge Moves Sen. Scott's Tax Info Leak Case To DC Court

By Asha Glover

A Florida federal court transferred U.S. Sen. Rick Scott's suit against a former employee of federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. for leaking his personal tax returns to D.C. federal court Friday, saying the employee's conduct didn't happen in Florida.

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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.

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Brief

Cold Storage Co. To Pay $5.25M To Settle Data Breach Lawsuit

By Kelcey Caulder

Americold Logistics LLC agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle a pair of proposed class actions alleging that lax cybersecurity at the cold storage giant led to two separate data breaches that impacted nearly 225,000 workers.

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Brief

Nvidia Wins Stay In AI Voice Data Class Action

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge granted Nvidia's motion to stay discovery pending his ruling on its bid to dismiss a suit claiming it used journalists' and voice actors' voices to train its artificial intelligence models without permission, saying the plaintiffs could have sought emergency relief if continued dissemination of the models was an urgent concern.

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Hugging Face Attack Is A Warning To The Securities Markets

The recent Hugging Face cyberattack, in which OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents hacked a third party without human instruction, raises questions about how regulators could respond to a similar incident in the securities markets and whether there's a substitute for scienter if no person is behind a financial crime, says Joseph A. Hall at Davis Polk.

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Elder Fraud Risk And Pleading Lessons From Meta Cases

Michael Gilfix and Benjamin Gicqueau at Gilfix & La Poll discuss how a recent Meta youth settlement and an April decision involving social media harms to children may point to a broader pleading framework in cases of elder fraud, and offer practical measures for platforms and consumers seeking to reduce elder fraud risk.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors

By Tracey Read

Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.

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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'

By Julie Manganis

A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.

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A2J At The High Court: Gun Bans, Voting And Civil Remedies

By Marco Poggio

From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.

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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL

By Madison Arnold

Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.

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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim

By Asha Glover

Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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