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August 08, 2025
Wash. Firm's $1M Cyber Insurance Suit Survives Dismissal
A Washington federal court rejected a cyber insurer's bid to dismiss a law firm's coverage action alleging it lost more than $1 million in a data breach that also involved spoofed emails, finding the insurer's interpretation of the word "for" was unreasonable, given the structure of the policy.
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August 08, 2025
El Paso Soldier Accused Of Sending Military Info To Russia
An El Paso active-duty soldier has been arrested in connection with accusations that he attempted to transmit U.S. military information to Russia.
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August 08, 2025
Judge Rebuts 'Intemperate' Language In 'It Ends With Us' Row
A New York federal judge on Friday warned all litigants in actress Blake Lively's defamation case against her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni not to use "intemperate" language and personal attacks in court filings.
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August 08, 2025
Stewart Rejects 8 IPR Petitions While Overriding May Denial
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart used her director review powers to grant a petition for inter partes review that she'd previously denied, but otherwise largely supported patent owners in the small batch of recent discretionary denial reviews.
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August 08, 2025
Akin Hires 2 More Crowell & Moring Cyber Pros In DC
Following Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's hire last month of Crowell & Moring LLP attorney Evan D. Wolff as co-head of its cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice, two more Crowell & Moring lawyers will be joining the team.
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August 07, 2025
ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Mulls Cuts To Oversight Reach In 4 Nonbank Markets
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering formally scaling back the reach of its nonbank oversight, floating a series of early stage proposals that contemplate sharply reducing the number of firms it would supervise in four key financial services markets.
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August 07, 2025
Meta Can't Ax 'Pen Register' Claim In Tax Data Tracking Row
A California federal judge overseeing a consolidated class action accusing Meta of unlawfully collecting sensitive information from several tax filing websites has refused to cut a claim that the social media giant's tracking pixel qualifies as a "pen register" device prohibited by the state's wiretap law. Â
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August 07, 2025
Experian Gets ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Credit Reporting Suit Tossed, For Now
A California federal judge dismissed a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lawsuit accusing Experian of mishandling consumer credit reporting disputes, saying the agency hasn't sufficiently shown that a tolling agreement with Experian's parent company stopped the clock on the claims, but gave the agency a chance to rework its complaint.
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August 07, 2025
Health Insurance Telemarketers Cough Up $145M In FTC Suits
Two telemarketing companies will pay $145 million to settle Federal Trade Commission claims that they misled millions of consumers into buying phony health insurance plans, the FTC said in a Thursday announcement accusing the telemarketers of making false promises that didn't provide what they offered.
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August 07, 2025
Google Wants Epic's Claims Tossed After Samsung Deal
Google urged a California federal court to toss the remaining claims in a case from Epic Games that initially accused the tech giant of colluding with Samsung to block app store competition, but now centers on a security feature Google said the court has already addressed.
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August 07, 2025
Music Publishers Denied Anthropic User Info In AI Case
A California federal judge on Thursday denied a request from music publishers for the names of people who used Anthropic PBC's generative text tool Claude to get copyrighted lyrics, saying she was not persuaded that production of personal third-party user information was needed for the infringement litigation.
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August 07, 2025
Motorola Surveillance App Teed Up For 1st Circ. Review
The First Circuit should decide whether a Motorola app designed to allow police to record calls without informing the person on the other line was illegal in and of itself, said a Massachusetts federal judge overseeing a suit from four men who argue that it was.
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August 07, 2025
7th Circ. Affirms 25-Year Drug Sentence, OKs Voice ID At Trial
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld a narcotics distribution conviction of a former owner of a Texas trucking company whose drug ring transporting hundreds of pounds of cocaine and heroin was discovered after a co-conspirator recorded a call with the man and provided a copy to federal agents.
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August 07, 2025
FCC Plans To Narrow Enviro Rules For Broadband Projects
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed to make it easier for broadband providers to clear FCC reviews required by the National Environmental Policy Act.
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August 07, 2025
Tea Dating App Hit With BIPA Suit Over Photo Verifications
Dating safety app Tea has been hit in Illinois state court with proposed class biometric privacy claims by three users who say it illegally analyzes their facial geometry through its identify verification process.
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August 07, 2025
Federal Courts Disclose New Cyberattacks On PACER System
The federal judiciary on Thursday disclosed there have been escalating cyberattacks on its case management system, putting sealed and sensitive case documents at risk, and that it is taking steps to strengthen its security.
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August 07, 2025
Ex-Data Co. Execs Charged With $25M 'Round Tripping' Scam
Two executives from bankrupt California data company Near Intelligence Inc. fraudulently inflated the company's revenues by $25 million in a conspiracy that involved a third executive from advertising company MobileFuse LLC, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment unsealed Thursday.
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August 07, 2025
California Anti-Deepfake Law Struck Down By Judge
A California federal judge has agreed to block a California anti-deepfake law as constitutionally and legally invalid, siding with conservative media companies and content creators who argued that the law infringes platforms' First Amendment rights to moderate content on their own and pressures them to censor speech.
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August 07, 2025
NC Biz Court Bulletin: Divorce Dust-Ups And Judicial Rebukes
Litigation in the North Carolina Business Court is heating up this summer with new complaints centered on fears a former state politician's divorce proceedings will impede his companies' operations and accusations that a climate technology company has failed to pay out a former engineer's ownership interest.
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August 07, 2025
State Data Breach Action Against Conn. Firm Dropped
A Connecticut Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the withdrawal of a state class action filed by a former Brown Paindiris & Scott LLP client against the 26-attorney firm, as ongoing parallel federal actions alleging a data breach at the firm continue.
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August 06, 2025
FCC Blocks 185 Voice Providers For Breaking Robocall Regs
Nearly 200 voice service providers will no longer be able to connect to U.S. networks because they refused to comply with Federal Communications Commission regulations aimed at stemming the flood of robocalls being made to people's phones, the agency said.
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August 06, 2025
Calif. Privacy Agency Takes Retailer To Court Over Subpoena
The California Privacy Protection Agency initiated a legal action Wednesday to force Tractor Supply Co. to comply with an investigative subpoena seeking information about the retailer's compliance with the state's data privacy regime dating back to 2020, a demand that the company has contended sweeps too broadly.
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August 06, 2025
Allianz Life Hit With Class Actions Over Data Breach
Allianz Life Insurance has been hit with a slew of proposed class actions in Minnesota federal court by customers who were among the nearly 1.4 million who had their personal information stolen in a mid-July data breach.
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August 06, 2025
Overtime Sports Sued Over Early Morning Marketing Texts
A California man has filed a proposed class action alleging Overtime Sports Inc. has violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending marketing text messages outside the allowable hours.
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August 06, 2025
DOJ, Google Get OK For 2-Week Ad Tech Remedies Trial
When Google faces off against the U.S. Department of Justice at trial next month to determine what remedy the tech behemoth should provide for illegally maintaining a monopoly over advertising technology services, they'll each get five or six court days to make their case.
Expert Analysis
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Open Banking Is On Ice As ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Seeks To Toss Its Own Rule
Even as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to toss its open banking rule play out in Kentucky federal court, it remains statutorily required to effectuate consumer access to data, raising questions about how it would replace the previously finalized standard, say attorneys at Cooley.
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Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.
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How US Cos. Should Prep For Brazil's Int'l Data Transfer Rules
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority's new rules concerning the processing and storing of Brazilians' personal data carry significant reputational risks for the e-commerce, financial services, education and health sectors, so U.S. companies with business in Brazil should prepare ahead of the Aug. 23 compliance date, says Juliane Chaves Ferreira at Guimarães & Vieira de Mello.
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A Deep Dive Into 14 Nixed Gensler-Era SEC Rule Proposals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month formally withdrew 14 notices of proposed rulemaking, including several significant and widely criticized proposals that had been issued under former Chair Gary Gensler's leadership, signaling a clear and definitive shift away from the previous administration, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion
In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.
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Breaking Down Novel Va. Social Media Law For Minors
While a Virginia bill passed in May is notable for setting a one-hour daily limit on minors' use of social media, other provisions create compliance burdens for social media operators and app store providers, and increase privacy and security risks associated with the collection of sensitive information to prove identity, says Jenna Rode at Hunton.
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Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss
Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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DOJ Crypto Enforcement Is Shifting To Target Willfulness
Three pending criminal prosecutions could be an indication of how the U.S. Department of Justice's recent digital assets memo is shaping enforcement of the area, and show a growing focus on executives who knowingly allow their platforms to be used for criminal conduct involving sanctions offenses, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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How NJ's Proposed Privacy Rules Could Reshape AI Data Use
Although not revolutionary, New Jersey's proposed privacy rules would create obligations around the management and processing of consumer personal data that will require careful planning before they can be successfully implemented, say attorneys at Norton Rose.
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The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine
The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Business Takeaways Following CCPA Enforcement Actions
Advisories and recent enforcement activity by the California Privacy Protection Agency against Honda and Todd Snyder underscore the agency's enforcement interest in the intersection of data minimization and consumer rights, and could make it more challenging for a business to provide a streamlined consumer rights process, say attorneys at Covington.
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EU Space Act Could Stifle US Commercial Operators
The EU Space Act, proposed last month, has the potential to raise global standards for safety and sustainability in space, but the U.S. and EU need to harmonize their regulatory approaches to avoid imposing regulatory burdens that undermine commercial innovation and agility, say Jessica Noble and Adriane Mandakunis at Aegis Space Law.
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Unpacking Enforcement Challenges Of DOJ's Bulk Data Rule
Now fully effective, the U.S. Department of Justice's new data security program represents the U.S.' first data localization requirement ripe for enforcement, but its implementation faces substantial practical challenges that may hinder the DOJ's ability for wide-ranging or swift action, say attorneys at Cleary.
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Nuclear Stakeholders Must Prepare For Cyber Threats
As the White House signals its support for a revival of nuclear power to supply the power needs of data centers and the artificial intelligence industry, investors and operators must keep in mind that safeguarding nuclear infrastructure from evolving cyber threats will be essential, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.
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Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator
Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.