Meta, TikTok, Google Say Calif. Teen Feed Ban Is Censorship

By Emily Field

Meta, TikTok and Google have sued California to block a new law that bans social media platforms from allowing children under 16 certain features like personalized feeds, saying in separate complaints that the law violates the First Amendment and is barred by Section 230.

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Fla. Court Says Meta Can't Dodge Child Safety Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida state appeals court won't quash an order denying Meta's bid to dismiss the state's suit accusing it of harming children, finding that the social media giant had failed to show it would suffer irreparable harm.

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9th Circ. Says Lending Co. Can't Arbitrate In Snowflake MDL

By Sydney Price

The Ninth Circuit ruled that online consumer lending platform LendingTree and an insurance comparison subsidiary cannot compel arbitration of a cybersecurity suit within multidistrict litigation over a breach of data held by cloud storage company Snowflake since the websites' design elements prevented "mutual assent" to their terms.

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Analysis

Binance Mega-Hack Confirms Cyberinsurance Industry Fears

By Abraham Gross

The theft of $6.3 billion in crypto assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance brought to life long-standing fears in the cyberinsurance industry that the scale of some state-backed cyberattacks may be uninsurable.

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HHS Seeks To End Suit Over Aid Recipient Data Sharing

By Yeji Jesse Lee

The Department of Health and Human Services is asking a New York federal judge to either rule in its favor or otherwise throw out a suit focused on whether HHS is allowed to share personal information with the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies.

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California Regulator Orders Crypto ATM Co. To Pay $5.1M

By Katryna Perera

CoinFlip, an operator of cryptocurrency ATMs, has been ordered to pay $5.1 million by California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation for allegedly failing to protect state users from financial fraud and for charging excessive fees to California consumers.

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Apple Says ICloud User Years Too Late For Antitrust Suit

By Bryan Koenig

Apple asked a California federal judge to scrap a proposed consumer class action accusing it of monopolizing cloud storage for its mobile devices, arguing the challenged limits on data backup functionality trace back to the birth of the iPhone, meaning the lawsuit is over a decade too late.

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Consumers Drop Cambridge Management Data Breach Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A proposed class of consumers has decided to dismiss its data breach claims against property manager Cambridge Management Inc. without prejudice, according to a court notice filed in Washington federal court.

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Netflix Faces Revamped 'Baby Reindeer' Defamation Suit

By Elliot Weld

A Scottish attorney who claims her life was ruined by her allegedly inspiring a character in the Netflix series "Baby Reindeer" has added to her allegations that she was defamed by the series, saying Netflix knew the story was fictional but presented it as true and the court should revive some of her dismissed claims.

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Google Looks To Nix Foreign Developers' Play Store Claims

By Matthew Perlman

Google told a California federal court that foreign developers cannot bring antitrust claims targeting allegedly inflated Play Store fees because any harm felt would be in their home countries, not in the U.S.

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FCRA Ruling Previews Future Business Transaction Litigation

The Ninth Circuit's overturning of a class verdict against CenturyLink is a win for businesses facing Fair Credit Reporting Act willfulness claims, but the question of when a consumer initiates a transaction remains unanswered, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

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How Cos. Should Prepare For Democratic Oversight

Companies should begin preparing now for a new, Democratic-majority Congress — understanding how the oversight landscape has changed in recent years and monitoring leadership elections, new rules and potential select committees, say attorneys at Wiley.

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Series

Open-Water Swimming Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Swimming long distances in open waters is not necessarily an escape from my intellectual property practice, but a complementary discipline that similarly rewards sustained attention, intellectual curiosity, resilience and the ability to pursue a distant objective without losing command of the immediate task, says Christina MacDougall at Morgan Lewis.

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Controversial DOJ Civil Rights Division Leader Steps Down

By Alison Knezevich

Harmeet K. Dhillon, a U.S. Department of Justice official who instituted dramatic changes as leader of the Civil Rights Division, has stepped down from her role.

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Sullivan & Cromwell Brings On Weil Capital Markets Leader

By Isaac Monterose

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has hired the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's capital markets team for a capital markets partner role in its New York City office, the firm announced Thursday.

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Analysis

Racing Against Whistleblowers Could Cost Companies

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Department of Justice's new cash rewards program for tips on criminal fraud threatens to ramp up the pressure on companies to hurry internal investigations and quickly report suspected misconduct to the government before whistleblowers do, which could backfire in some cases, according to experts.

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Judge Albright's Do's And Don'ts For Patent Trials

By Dani Kass

Two months after former ​U.S. District Judge Alan Albright returned to private practice, he regaled a room of attorneys at the University of Texas School of Law on Thursday with lessons from his time on the bench.

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Trump's Hush Money Conviction Examined By Wary NY Panel

By Frank G. Runyeon

A New York State appellate court Thursday quizzed attorneys for President Donald Trump and state prosecutors over his hush-money conviction, exploring defense counsel's claims that the district attorney trespassed into federal jurisdiction by charging election violations and trampled on presidential immunity in a case "infected with multiple fatal errors."

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