A Florida federal judge refused to hand a decisive win just yet to either the state or technology groups challenging a law punishing social media websites for blocking political candidates, sending the dispute — which has already made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to a September bench trial instead.
A Florida federal judge refused to hand a decisive win just yet to either the state or technology groups challenging a law punishing social media websites for blocking political candidates, sending the dispute — which has already made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to a September bench trial instead.
Microsoft Corp. has secured permission to support the European Commission in its effort to shield a vital agreement that enables personal data to flow freely from the European Union to the U.S. from a French lawmaker's attempt to convince the bloc's highest court to strike down the transfer mechanism.
A divided Sixth Circuit panel Thursday wiped out a lower court's order blocking an Ohio law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent, ruling that the measure does not run afoul of the Constitution.
A California federal judge refused to dismiss a proposed class action alleging Express Scripts lets Meta secretly read consumers' communications, saying a consumer sufficiently claimed the online pharmacy allowed Meta's unauthorized collection of personal health information.
An upcoming trial in Texas for a first-of-its-kind case against Meta and claims against a health clinic owned by a U.S. senator lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.
Meta faced some pushback from a Massachusetts state judge for comparing Instagram's design to a newspaper publisher's decisions about what to put on the front page, as the company pushed to end the state's lawsuit over alleged harm to youth from social media use.
A bill that would create a pathway for reporting AI-generated deepfakes online for removal cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday after a few senators had raised concerns over First Amendment implications but said they believed they could be resolved before a full Senate vote.
Anthropic has filed a protective petition challenging the U.S. Department of Defense's June 3 decision reaffirming the artificial intelligence giant's designation as a supply-chain risk, asking the D.C. Circuit to consolidate it with the designation challenge already pending before the appeals court.
Counsel for a convicted Florida bitcoin fraudster who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to pay over $20 million in restitution stemming from his role in a crypto heist on Thursday told the Second Circuit that the lower court's resentencing trampled on the constitutional rights of her client, who "never got due process at any stage."
The entities behind Pornhub have reached a settlement with a certified class of child sex trafficking and sexual abuse material survivors who allege the website profited from the crimes committed against them, an attorney for the class told a California federal judge Thursday.
Novo Nordisk was hit with a proposed negligence class action in New Jersey federal court alleging the pharmaceutical giant failed to have adequate data security measures in place to protect sensitive personal health information of patients and employees from being exposed to a cybercriminal extortionist group.
Louisiana is asking a federal appellate court to lift its block on a state law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and bans them from allowing minors to create or maintain accounts without parental permission.
Accenture said Thursday it will acquire a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity company Dragos and buy runZero and NetRise in deals with a combined enterprise value of $4.175 billion, expanding its software offerings for securing critical infrastructure and industrial operations.
The Supreme Court's recent decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, finding that the FCC's informal forfeiture process survives Seventh Amendment scrutiny, opens some doors for regulated entities, but the practical effect may be surprisingly constrained, says Jonathan Marashlian at The CommLaw Group.
Fintech company MyCard's recent complaint filed in Delaware federal court, alleging that competitor Atomic FI copied its proprietary software, including a "honeypot" in the form of a specific 37-character string, highlights fact-intensive questions of when alleged trade secrets are actually secret, says Eugene Mar at Farella Braun.
The evolving lending landscape, particularly the private credit boom, has heightened lenders' exposure to fraud, but recent bankruptcies demonstrate where fraud risks most commonly materialize and how banks can mitigate exposure at the outset, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.
Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.
A former Conrad & Scherer LLP managing partner must pay an Alabama coal company's attorney fees after being publicly reprimanded by an Alabama federal judge, who found he lied to the court and paid witnesses to change their testimony in his repeated lawsuits against the company.
Four women allege in a recently filed lawsuit that a New Jersey law firm overcharged them on legal fees related to a settlement in pelvic mesh litigation, and the recent lawsuit also relates to a long-running conflict between lawyers who formerly worked together.
The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the federal government to weigh in on a Garden State appellate court's decision that approved a New Jersey State Bar Association system for fostering diversity in its leadership that was accused of being discriminatory.
A D.C. federal judge held Monday that the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner can't disqualify U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche from prosecuting him because of their presence at the dinner.
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands, tender offers and alleged insider misconduct.
