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Justices Say Cisco Can't Be Sued Under Alien Tort Statute
By Y. Peter Kang
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Ninth Circuit was wrong to reinstate an Alien Tort Statute suit alleging that Cisco helped the Chinese government's allegedly unlawful crackdown on the Falun Gong religious movement, saying federal courts lack authority to create causes of action for alleged violations of international law.
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POLICY & REGULATION
SEC Urged To Adopt CAT To Fix Market Surveillance Tool
By Jessica Corso
The national stock exchanges that run a key market surveillance tool have told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission there is "no realistic fallback" that could replace the tool as the SEC looks for ways to trim the tool's budget, but some are urging the agency to take over funding and ownership of the database known as the consolidated audit trail.
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ENFORCEMENT
Wash. Says T-Mobile Broke Data Breach Law
By Nadia Dreid
There's enough evidence for a judge to find that T-Mobile failed to meet Washington's data breach notification requirements following a 2021 breach, the state said Monday, arguing that text messages the company sent to customers about the incident left out critical information.
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Paramount Urges High Court To Limit Video Privacy Lawsuits
By Allison Grande
Paramount Global is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a ruling that only consumers who directly subscribe to audiovisual goods and services can bring lawsuits under the Video Privacy Protection Act, arguing that a more expansive reading would allow plaintiffs to flood the courts and would wrongly "transform" the law into an "unworkable internet-privacy regime."
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LITIGATION
Google And Adult Website Defeat Data Sharing Suit, For Now
By Lauren Berg
A California federal judge on Tuesday again tossed a proposed class action alleging that an adult website illegally shares customers' private sexual information with third parties like Google, noting that the amended complaint made "perplexing" changes that don't fix the original suit's issues, but allowed the plaintiff to rework some allegations.
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