Meta Atty's Slip Reveals Social Media Trial Plaintiff's Identity

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Meta Platforms on Tuesday revealed the highly guarded full name of the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether trial accusing its Instagram platform and Google's YouTube of harming children's mental health, prompting the Los Angeles judge overseeing the case to strike it from the record and order everyone in the courtroom not to reveal it.

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Judge Won't Rely On DOJ 'Decency' In Trans Records Case

By Matthew Santoni

A Pennsylvania federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from getting patient-specific records of gender-affirming care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital, excoriating the government's request and its reasoning for demanding the data.

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Dems Want Investigation Into DHS Location Data Buys

By Tom Lotshaw

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday asked a federal watchdog to investigate whether the U.S. Department of Homeland Security restarted a program to buy location data on Americans without warrants.

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DC Circ. Urged To Aid Discovery In ICE-IRS Data-Sharing Case

By Anna Scott Farrell

A taxpayer group challenging the legality of a deal allowing the Internal Revenue Service to share taxpayer location information with immigration authorities asked the D.C. Circuit to remand part of the case to investigate the IRS' admission that it improperly shared addresses under the agreement.

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Calif. Privacy Agency Hits Sports Media Co. Over Data Tracking

By Allison Grande

The California Privacy Protection Agency on Tuesday announced its first enforcement action involving students' data privacy, hitting a youth sports media company with a $1.1 million penalty for allegedly failing to provide consumers with a sufficient way to opt out of the sale and sharing of their personal information for targeted advertising and other purposes. 

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Apple Asks 9th Circ. To Rethink Part Of App Store Injunction

By Matthew Perlman

Apple asked the Ninth Circuit to reconsider part of a panel decision that largely affirmed an injunction in the case being brought by Epic Games Inc. that blocked the tech giant from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its payment systems.

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GAO Denies Incumbent's Protest Of Navy $232M Cyber Deal

By Madeline Lyskawa

An incumbent contractor hasn't shown the U.S. Navy unreasonably accepted an awardee's contract reference, which the firm said lacked experience required by the solicitation, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said, denying a protest of a $232 million cybersecurity task order.

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Curaleaf Says No Private Info Leaked In Buyers' Data Suit

By Mike Curley

Curaleaf Inc. is asking a Florida federal court to throw out a suit alleging that its website failed to protect buyers' personal and health information, saying none of the information the site or its software collects is personal property or healthcare information.

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Philadelphia Nonprofit Sued Over Employee Info Hack

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Philadelphia Corporation for Aging has been hit with privacy claims by a prospective class of employees alleging the nonprofit's failure to properly safeguard their confidential information might have led to it being stolen by cybercriminals during a data breach in July.

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Wealth Management Firm Sued Over 5.7M Record Breach

By MJ Koo

A wealth management firm was hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court by a client who alleges that an extortion-driven cyberattack by the hacking group ShinyHunters exposed approximately 5.7 million individual records containing sensitive personal information.

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Social Media Trial Raises Key Product Safety Questions

The trial underway in a California state court against Meta and Google is unprecedented, because it marks the first time a jury has been asked to consider whether social media platforms' engagement-maximizing design can be treated as a product safety issue, or whether it is inseparable from protected expression, says Gary Angiuli at Angiuli & Gentile.

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Aligning Microsoft Tools With NYC Bar AI Recording Guidance

The New York City Bar Association’s recently issued formal opinion, providing ethical guidance on artificial intelligence-assisted recording, transcription and summarization, raises immediate questions about data governance and e-discovery for companies that use Microsoft 365 and Copilot, say Staci Kaliner, Martin Tully and John Collins at Redgrave.

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Judge Questions DOJ Stance In ABA's Intimidation Suit

By Jared Foretek

A Susman Godfrey LLP attorney told a district judge that the Trump administration's recent double-reversal on its executive orders targeting law firms proved that attorneys fighting government action face a real and ongoing threat and urged the judge not to toss a suit from his client, the American Bar Association, to end the "Intimidation Policy."

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DOJ Seeks Power To Block State Bar Probes Of Agency Attys

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys to combat what the agency called "weaponization" of ethics processes, a proposal that drew concerns from ethics scholars for overstepping states' authorities.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

If this month's circuit calendars were a March Madness bracket, we'd struggle to pick the top-seeded showdown. Big Pharma against the False Claims Act, or big business against President Donald Trump's visa fees? A big bank's view of "human life wagers," or en banc review in a State Farm class action?

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Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify On DOJ's Epstein Investigation

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with five Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to compel Bondi's testimony.

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Analysis

Trump's FCA Expansion Plan Heightens Compliance Risk

By Sarah Jarvis

In light of the Trump administration's record False Claims Act enforcement haul, companies should be especially mindful of a planned expansion in the scope of enforcement and the false compliance certification risks that may bring, attorneys say.

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SEC, PCAOB Auditor Enforcement Plummeted In 2025

By Sarah Jarvis

Both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board saw decreases in accounting and auditing enforcement activity in 2025, including sharp decreases in SEC settlements and PCAOB fines for auditing actions.

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Comey, James Urge 4th Circ. To Reject Indictment Revival Bid

By Emily Sawicki

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James have urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive criminal indictments filed against them last year in the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing they were fatally flawed because they were brought by a federal prosecutor who was not lawfully in that position.

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Appeals Panel Debates NJ's Duty In Prosecutor Ethics Case

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday weighed whether it was in the state's best interest to represent an assistant prosecutor in an ethics proceeding, questioning how a prosecutor is different from any other attorney called before the disciplinary board.

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