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September 22, 2025
T-Mobile, Sprint Push DC Circ. To Revisit $92M FCC Fines
T-Mobile and Sprint are asking the full D.C. Circuit to review a $92 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission over their sale of sensitive user location data with third-party companies, asking for an en banc rehearing of their challenge after a three-judge panel unanimously affirmed the penalty last month.
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September 22, 2025
Parents Want Roblox Grooming Suits Consolidated In Calif.
Parents who claim their children were groomed and exploited by sexual predators on Roblox's popular gaming platform say their cases should be consolidated and sent to the Northern District of California since their cases are almost identical, according to a recent petition.
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September 22, 2025
Tech Groups Ask To Maintain Block On Fla. Social Media Law
Tech industry organizations and civil rights groups threw their support behind two groups challenging a Florida law banning children 13 and under from social media, telling the Eleventh Circuit the law is an unconstitutional regulation of speech.
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September 22, 2025
Experian Asks 4th Circ. To Reverse Arb. Ruling In FCRA Suit
Consumer reporting agency Experian has asked the Fourth Circuit to overturn a lower court's decision concerning the arbitration of a lawsuit brought by a consumer falsely reported as dead, saying the judge was wrong not to enforce clauses in the consumer's agreement that delegated such decisions to an arbitrator.
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September 22, 2025
Barclays Credit Card User Must Arbitrate Meta Privacy Suit
A Barclays customer must arbitrate his putative class action alleging it discloses his interactions on the bank's website with Meta Platforms Inc. while logged into his Barclays account, after a New York federal judge said Friday his subsequent use of his credit cards supports that he received cardholder agreements containing arbitration provisions.
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September 22, 2025
High Court Allows FTC Firing, Will Review Trump's Power
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that President Donald Trump can fire Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause, and it agreed to reconsider limits on the president's authority to remove members of the FTC.
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September 19, 2025
EU-US Data Transfer Ruling Delivers Relief But Not Finality
A recent court decision backing a revamped framework for transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States provided companies with some much-needed comfort after nearly a decade of setbacks although that reprieve might be short-lived as opponents eye a broader challenge to the critical arrangement.
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September 19, 2025
Fla. Court OKs $20M Settlement In Fortra Data Breach MDL
A Florida federal judge gave final approval to a $20 million class action settlement as part of multidistrict litigation over theft of personal information from millions of U.S. citizens in a health data breach tied to a Russian ransomware group.
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September 19, 2025
MLB App Breaches Led To Lost, Stolen Tickets, Fan Claims
Major League Baseball's mobile ticketing app has had systemic security breaches resulting in the disappearance or theft of game tickets throughout the season, with MLB failing to fully acknowledge the problem and leaving fans "in the lurch,'' according to a proposed class action in New York federal court.
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September 19, 2025
Treasury Launches Stablecoin Rule Push With Call For Input
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday asked for public input on key regulatory considerations for stablecoins as it begins crafting rules to govern the stable-value crypto tokens under the recently signed Genius Act.
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September 19, 2025
Ƶ Union Drops Suit Over DOGE Access To Worker Data
The National Treasury Employees Union on Friday dropped a lawsuit seeking to block Department of Government Efficiency access to personnel data at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a move that comes as the union assesses next steps in its other, higher-profile challenge to the consumer agency's downsizing.
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September 19, 2025
Privacy Class Suit Over Meta Code On Sports Site Stays Alive
A California man's proposed class action accusing a website that provides free instructional sports videos of invading his privacy by way of Meta Platforms Inc. code will continue in federal court, after a judge denied the website's motions to dismiss the suit and to change the venue.
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September 19, 2025
FTC Restructuring Its Non-DC Offices Under Single Banner
The head of the Federal Trade Commission's Competition Bureau said in New York City remarks Friday that the agency is restructuring its offices outside its Washington, D.C., base so that those satellite units operate as a single division under an "easier, cleaner, more efficient reporting structure."
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September 18, 2025
MrBeast Ads, Kids' Privacy Practices Draw Watchdog Scrutiny
An industry self-regulatory body has urged the media company created by YouTube personality MrBeast to revamp the way it advertises to and collects personal information from children, after identifying several issues with how the company presented ads on YouTube videos and promoted its Feastables chocolate brand.
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September 18, 2025
FCC Should Follow Exec Branch Policy, Commissioner Says
As President Donald Trump continues to get more involved in the operations of independent federal agencies, a member of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday the FCC needs to remain accountable to the executive branch.
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September 18, 2025
Amazon Must Face Buyers' Antitrust Suit Over Pricing Policy
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed consumers' lawsuit targeting a policy Amazon had in place until March 2019 that restricted sellers from offering cheaper prices elsewhere to proceed under antitrust and consumer protection laws in 25 states, but tossed claims brought under Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee laws.
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September 18, 2025
Dems Demand DOJ Explain Binance Plea Deal Compliance
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and two of her Democratic colleagues have asked U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for information on Binance's compliance with its 2023 plea agreement stemming from anti-money laundering lapses, pointing to President Donald Trump's ties to the crypto exchange.
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September 18, 2025
2nd Circ. To Weigh EFTA's Scope In NY's Citi Wire Fraud Case
The Second Circuit has granted Citibank's request for an appeal in its fight with New York Attorney General Letitia James over the bank's response to incidents of online wire transfer fraud, agreeing to review whether key federal consumer protections for electronic payments apply to wire transfers initiated over the internet.
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September 18, 2025
IRS Discloses Details On ICE Agreement In Data Sharing Row
The U.S. government disclosed additional details Thursday on the agreement between the IRS and immigration enforcement authorities to share confidential tax return information, including who had necessary permissions to access the disclosures, following a D.C. federal judge's order in a lawsuit seeking to end the interagency data sharing.
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September 18, 2025
Gov't Told GPS Signal Jamming Growing Far Worse
More than a dozen trade groups banded together to tell federal agencies that GPS signal jamming is a growing concern to U.S. industries in international waters and airspace.
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September 18, 2025
AI Firm's Ex-CTO Barred From Using Trade Secrets
A Washington federal judge has barred an artificial intelligence startup's former chief technology officer from using trade secrets to hurt the company, making disparaging statements about it or contacting the company's current or prospective customers.
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September 18, 2025
DOJ's Slater Says Google Search Fixes Set AI 'Foundation'
The head of the Justice Department Antitrust Division left the door open Thursday to appealing a D.C. federal judge's rejection of the government's most sweeping remedies proposals targeting Google's search monopoly, even as she used New York City remarks to tout the fixes the government did manage to win.
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September 18, 2025
Natixis Seeks Privacy Monitor For Madoff Document Handover
French investment manager Natixis wants a court-ordered international privacy monitor to oversee its transfer of discovery materials to the trustee administering the bankruptcy estate of Bernard Madoff in the trustee's $214 million clawback lawsuit against it.
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September 18, 2025
DOD To Probe Redundancies In Cyberspace Ops
The U.S. Department of Defense said it will look for possible efficiencies and consolidations after a congressional watchdog said there may be unnecessary overlap in sprawling cyberspace operations that span hundreds of organizations, tens of thousands of personnel and more than 9,500 contractors.
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September 18, 2025
PNC Accused Of Sharing Site Users' Private Info With LinkedIn
A proposed class action claims PNC Financial Services violated the privacy of visitors to its website by tracking their browsing and sharing that information with social network LinkedIn, according to a complaint filed in Pennsylvania state court.
Expert Analysis
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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI
After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.
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Crypto Custody Guidelines Buoy Both Banks And Funds
A statement released last month by banking regulators — highlighting risks that the agencies expect banks holding crypto-assets to mitigate — may encourage more traditional institutions to offer crypto-asset safekeeping and thereby offer asset managers more options for qualified custodians to custody crypto-assets for their clients, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan
President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence
In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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9th Circ. Leaves Scope Of CIPA Applicability Unclear
Three recent Ninth Circuit decisions declined to directly address whether all of the California Invasion of Privacy Act's provisions actually apply to internet activity, and given this uncertainty, companies should heed five recommendations when seeking to minimize CIPA litigation risk, say attorneys at Skadden.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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Notable Q2 Updates In Insurance Class Actions
Vehicle valuation challenges regarding the use of projected sale adjustments continued apace in insurance class actions this quarter, where insurers have been scoring victories on class certification decisions in federal circuit courts, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.
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Series
Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.
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Opinion
Time For Full Disclosure Of Third-Party Funding In MDLs
It is appropriate that the Federal Advisory Committee on Civil Rules is considering a rule to require disclosure of third-party litigation funding in civil litigation — something that is particularly needed in multidistrict litigation, which now comprises more than half of all civil cases in the federal courts, says Eric Hudson at Butler Snow.
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Regulating Online Activity After Porn Site Age Check Ruling
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an age verification requirement for accessing online adult sexual content applied a lenient rational basis standard, raising questions for how state and federal courts will determine what kinds of laws regulating online activity will satisfy this standard going forward, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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DC Circ. Ruling Augurs More Scrutiny Of Blanket Gag Orders
The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling in In re: Sealed Case, finding that an omnibus nondisclosure order was too sweeping, should serve as a wake-up call to prosecutors and provide a road map for private parties to push back on overbroad secrecy demands, says Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills
I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.
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Opinion
Bar Exam Reform Must Expand Beyond A Single Updated Test
Recently released information about the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ new NextGen Uniform Bar Exam highlights why a single test is not ideal for measuring newly licensed lawyers’ competency, demonstrating the need for collaborative development, implementation and reform processes, says Gregory Bordelon at Suffolk University.
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Location Data And Online Tracking Trends To Watch
Regulators and class action plaintiffs are increasingly targeting companies' use of online tracking technologies and geolocation data in both privacy enforcement and litigation, so organizations should view compliance as a dynamic, cross-functional responsibility as scrutiny becomes increasingly aggressive and multifaceted, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.