After a run of litigation losses, Meta Platforms Inc. will have to rethink its strategy in and out of court in an effort to beat back suits from coast to coast claiming that it is illegally hooking kids on Instagram, experts said, with everything from aggressive litigation to a global settlement on the table.
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Meta Seeks A Rally As Instagram Addiction Suit Losses Mount

By Chris Villani

After a run of litigation losses, Meta Platforms Inc. will have to rethink its strategy in and out of court in an effort to beat back suits from coast to coast claiming that it is illegally hooking kids on Instagram, experts said, with everything from aggressive litigation to a global settlement on the table.

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Sanctions Eyed In Otterbourg Leader's 'Scandalous' $10M Suit

By Aaron Keller

Otterbourg PC Chairman Richard L. Stehl and his attorneys should be sanctioned for adding "salacious" and legally unnecessary allegations to a retooled complaint seeking $10 million against James Cretella, a former law partner accused of accessing data about his onetime boss before departing for another firm, Cretella has argued.

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Justices Struggle With Constitutionality Of Geofence Warrants

By Brandon Lowrey

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared split on a Fourth Amendment challenge to the constitutionality of geofence warrants, which compel technology companies to turn over users' location data to law enforcement, grappling with technical, legal and practical complexities.

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Meta, Food Banks Beat Pixel Privacy Suit For Now

By Joyce Hanson

A California federal judge delivered on her earlier indication at a hearing that she would dismiss a proposed privacy class action against Meta Platforms Inc. and several food banks, saying visitors to food assistance websites failed to show their privacy rights were violated.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Fed. Privacy Bill Favors Biz Over People, Calif. Agency Says

By Allison Grande

The California Privacy Protection Agency is the latest to speak out against a recent congressional proposal to establish a federal data privacy framework that would wipe out more stringent state protections, arguing Monday that this approach would be a "significant step backward" in efforts to shield consumers from data misuse.

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TikTok Says Texas Trial Can't Happen 'Til October

By Nadia Dreid

There is no world where discovery in Texas' lawsuit against TikTok can be completed in the next six weeks, the social media behemoth has told a Texas state court, saying that "it is now beyond doubt that the assumptions underlying the current scheduling order are wrong."

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Brief

China Blocks Meta's Planned $2B Manus AI Acquisition

By Al Barbarino

China's top economic planning body on Monday ordered the cancellation of Meta Platforms Inc.'s planned acquisition of Chinese artificial intelligence company Manus.

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ENFORCEMENT

Mass. Fines Fidelity $1.25M Over 'Image ID' Data Breach

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Fidelity unit has agreed to pay a $1.25 million fine to end Massachusetts' claims that a failure to enforce cybersecurity protocols led to a data breach affecting 77,000 brokerage customers, according to a consent order filed on Monday with the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

New Legislation May Be Necessary To Fix Flawed Cox Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Cox v. Sony erroneously limited the doctrine of contributory copyright infringement and effectively eliminated such liability for internet service providers, and the most viable option to remedy the damage is to codify the pre-Cox common law of contributory copyright infringement, says Michael Cicero at Mavacy.

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DOJ's Superseding Policy Muddies Trade Crime Disclosures

The U.S. Department of Justice’s first agencywide voluntary self-disclosure policy is intended to standardize approaches across DOJ components, but the shift may prove difficult in trade controls cases under the National Security Division, which has long viewed sanctions and export control offenses as uniquely serious, say attorneys at Covington.

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Structuring Bank-Fintech Ties To Avert Risk

Bank-fintech relationships that can hold up to recent increased scrutiny must take into account a broad swath of structuring considerations including due diligence, compliance, documentation, and planning for a potential wind-down and termination, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

ABA Settles Scholarship Suit After Disavowing Racial Criteria

By Grace Elletson

The American Bar Association struck a deal to end a suit claiming a scholarship program for racial and ethnic minorities discriminated against white applicants, in line with a vow it made last year that its programs would be race-neutral, according to a filing Monday in Illinois federal court.

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2nd Trump Judicial Nominee Questioned Over Fla. State Case

By Courtney Bublé

For the second time in a year, a judicial nominee for a Florida federal court is under scrutiny for allegedly presiding over a state level case involving President Donald Trump while being considered for a federal judgeship.

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Reed Smith Targeted In Eletson Gas Ownership Fracas

By Caroline Simson

Reed Smith LLP and two of its partners are facing a $262 million lawsuit in a long-running and bitter dispute over ownership of an international gas shipping company, as well as other issues that remain unresolved following the vacatur of an underlying $102 million arbitral award for fraud.

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Alabama Justices Toss Case Over Atty's AI-Hallucinated Briefs

By Lauren Berg

The Alabama Supreme Court tossed an appeal and sanctioned a Mobile, Alabama, attorney for filing "grossly deficient" briefs that contained multiple inaccurate legal citations that the justices attributed to artificial intelligence "hallucinations."

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Justices Deny Ramey Appeal Of Sanctions In Google IP Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review $255,000 in sanctions on embattled attorney William Ramey and a client for bringing what a California judge said was a frivolous patent suit against Google, turning down his appeal arguing the decision used the wrong legal standard.

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Analysis

How A Rush To Trial Paid Off With A Rare FCPA Acquittal

By Phillip Bantz

A defense strategy to fast-track the trial in a yearslong criminal foreign bribery case against a Mexican businessman in Texas appeared to backfire when he was convicted and sent to prison last year, but the gamble ultimately paid off when a judge permanently tossed the case earlier this month.

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Toss Of Atty's LVMH Claim 'Problematic,' 2nd Circ. Judge Says

By Pete Brush

A Second Circuit judge said Monday that he is having a "hard time" understanding how the firing of a LVMH lawyer wasn't connected to her earlier harassment allegations, indicating a willingness to revive retaliation claims against the luxury goods giant.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week tackled a fresh mix of deal litigation, procedural disputes and fiduciary duty claims, with several rulings and filings underscoring the court's continued focus on contractual precision, forum enforcement and the limits of stockholder challenges.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Armbrecht Jackson

Blank Rome

Breazeale Sachse

Buzbee Law Firm

Coblentz Patch

Consovoy McCarthy

Cooper & Kirk

Covington & Burling

Cummings & Lockwood

Davis Malm & D’Agostine

Fitzgerald Monroe

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees

Goulston & Storrs

Jenner & Block

Latham & Watkins

Lathrop GPM

Law Office of Max Rodriguez

Law Offices of Garrett S. Flynn

Lawfair LLC

Loretta A. Preska

McCarter & English

Meier Watkins

Nelson Mullins

O'Melveny & Myers

Otterbourg PC

Perkins Coie

Quinn Emanuel

R. McConnell Group PLLC

Ramey LLP

Reed Smith

Saul Ewing

Schaerr Jaffe

Seyfarth Shaw

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Apple Inc.

Ayala Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Brennan Center for Justice

Center for Democracy & Technology

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cox Communications Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Instagram Inc.

LVMH Moet Hennessy

London Court of International Arbitration

Masimo Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

MilliporeSigma

National Association of Realtors

New York University

RCN Telecom Services LLC

Renesas Electronics Corp.

SAP AG

Sony Group Corp.

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Tesaro Inc.

The District of Columbia Bar

TikTok Inc.

Twitter Inc.

Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Worldwide Inc.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.

X Corp.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Privacy Protection Agency

China's National Development and Reform Commission

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Government of Mexico

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Supreme Court