A plaintiff suing Snap in the Central District of California over its alleged deployment of website tracking pixels has voluntarily ended his lawsuit, on the heels of the company accusing his counsel of engaging in "forum shopping" to avoid appearing before a judge who's advised against a broad reading of the state's wiretap law.
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Snap Pixel Suit Dropped Amid Calif. 'Judge-Shopping' Claims

By Allison Grande

A plaintiff suing Snap in the Central District of California over its alleged deployment of website tracking pixels has voluntarily ended his lawsuit, on the heels of the company accusing his counsel of engaging in "forum shopping" to avoid appearing before a judge who's advised against a broad reading of the state's wiretap law.

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'News To Me': Instagram CEO Unaware Its Attys Deleted Data

By Dorothy Atkins

Instagram's CEO appeared to be taken by surprise Tuesday during a California federal jury trial over claims Meta hid social media's harms, after the states revealed that Instagram's in-house counsel removed data from a teen-safety presentation before presenting it to minimize his "litigation exposure risk," saying "this is all news to me."

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Meta Should Keep Research Internal, Data Whiz Tells Jury

By Cara Salvatore

A high-ranking Meta data analyst told a Tennessee jury Tuesday that the social media giant shouldn't release its user research publicly because he saw during a famous leak the danger that such research will be "misinterpreted and misrepresented."

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Applebee's Franchisee Faces Slew Of Data Breach Suits

By Hailey Konnath

The largest franchisee of Applebee's is facing at least eight proposed class actions over an April data breach that exposed the personal information, including health information, of tens of thousands of employees around the country, according to complaints filed in California and Ohio federal court.

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POLICY & REGULATION

NY Telecom Faces Call Traffic Blocking, FCC Warns

By Christopher Cole

A New York-based telecom has apparently been sending illegal calls from abroad over its network and faces the possibility of downstream providers blocking all of its traffic, the Federal Communications Commission said.

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City Of Austin Backs Improving Emergency Alert System

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The city of Austin, Texas, has asked the Federal Communications Commission to improve its geolocating requirements for emergency alert systems, saying its systems are facing several challenges and require more precise location information.

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Calif. Data Broker Tool Sign-Ups Hit 500K As Deletions Begin

By Allison Grande

Data brokers in California have deleted "tens of millions" of records since their obligation to comply with requests made through a new consumer data deletion tool kicked in earlier this month, the state's privacy regulator said Tuesday, while announcing that registrations for the first-of-its-kind platform had reached the half-million mark.

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ENFORCEMENT

Pa. AG Says Snapchat Hooks Kids With 'Ephemeral' Posts

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Tuesday that Pennsylvania is suing Snapchat for allegedly harming kids by turning them into compulsive users afraid to miss "ephemeral" posts on the popular app that disappear in time.

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LITIGATION

3 Firms Will Lead Charter Cyberattack Claims For Now

By Brian Steele

Attorneys with Milberg PLLC, Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP and Hausfeld LLP will serve as class counsel, at least temporarily, in a consolidated class action alleging that hackers stole more than 40 million private records through a cyberattack on Charter Communications Inc., a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.

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23andMe, Calif. Spar Over Data Claims In Bankruptcy Court

By Alex Wittenberg

The bankruptcy trust for DNA testing company 23andMe and the state of California locked horns Tuesday over the debtor's plan to trim the size of claims that the state has asserted over a data breach in 2023.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What To Know As Legal Duty To Consider AI Takes Shape

While the U.K. Jurisdiction Taskforce’s recent statement on liability for artificial intelligence harms is nonbinding for both U.K. and U.S. lawyers, it highlights the importance of being able to distinguish between the availability of a tool and a professional obligation to use it, say Jonny Frank and Michael Costa at StoneTurn.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Firm Revenue Climbs 12.4% In First Half Of 2026

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Record billing rate gains, strong demand and increased productivity fueled a successful start to the year for the legal industry, according to a report released Tuesday.

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Florida AG Slams Bar Complaint Against DHS Counsel

By Madison Arnold

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote to the executive director of the Florida Bar to criticize a recent complaint made to the bar against James Percival, general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for attacking judges.

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Legal Watchdog Lodges Bar Complaint Against Jeanine Pirro

By Hailey Konnath

The Legal Accountability Center said Tuesday that it filed a bar complaint against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, claiming that she abused her position to unjustifiably target Democratic lawmakers after they released a video reminding members of the military and intelligence community that it's their duty to refuse unlawful orders.

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6th Circ. Says Judge Can't Escape Teen Mock Arrest Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Sixth Circuit panel on Monday allowed to proceed a Michigan federal lawsuit filed against a Detroit judge who handcuffed a 15-year-old student and subjected her to a mock trial after she fell asleep in his courtroom, ruling that judicial immunity does not protect him.

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Watchdog Wants NY Judge Ousted Over Retaliatory Suit

By Rose Krebs

The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined a state judge should be removed from office for filing a retaliatory defamation suit against an eye-care worker who had lodged an ethics complaint over the judge refusing to wear a mask in an office in 2021.

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NY Times Says EEOC Dragging Feet On Anti-White Bias Info

By Grace Elletson

The New York Times Company has sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming the anti-discrimination watchdog flouted federal law by failing to respond to requests for records of communications with conservative legal groups and agency efforts to investigate claims of bias against white workers.

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Colo. Judge Ships $8.3M Messner Reeves Fraud Suit To Utah

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge granted a motion Monday from law firm Messner Reeves LLP to move a lawsuit accusing the firm of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme to Utah after finding the venue was the proper forum to litigate the claims.

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Tort Report: Mass. Jury Delivers Record Amazon Crash Verdict

By Y. Peter Kang

A record personal injury verdict against Amazon in a crash case and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler's upcoming sex abuse trial lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ahdoot & Wolfson

Bursor & Fisher

Carmody MacDonald

Chase Law & Associates

Cole & Van Note

Consovoy McCarthy

Covington & Burling

Emery Celli

Fieger Law

Gordon Rees

Hausfeld LLP

Israel David LLC

Kellogg Hansen

Kopelowitz Ostrow

Levi & Korsinsky

Lynch Carpenter

Markovits Stock

Mayer Brown

Meritz Reddy

Messner Reeves

Milberg PLLC

Nussbaum Law Group

Paul Weiss

Perkins Law

Perkins Law Group PLLC

Pillsbury Winthrop

Scott&Scott

Shamis & Gentile

Spencer Fane

Strauss Borrelli

Wagstaff & Cartmell

White & Case

Wiggin & Dana

Wilkinson Stekloff

Wolf Haldenstein

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

23andMe Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Apple Inc.

Applebee's International Inc.

Charter Communications Inc.

Federalist Society

Flynn Group

Instagram Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Pinterest Inc.

Rhapsody International Inc.

Salesforce.com Inc.

Snap Inc.

StoneTurn Group LLP

The Florida Bar

The New York Times Co.

TikTok Inc.

Trove Brands

Wells Fargo & Co.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Justice

California Privacy Protection Agency

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Florida Supreme Court

Missouri Attorney General's Office

New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct

Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office

State of Tennessee

Tennessee Attorney General's Office

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

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

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

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

U.S. Navy

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of Utah

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio