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September 08, 2025
Texas Couple Fights Firm's Sanctions Bid In Crash Data Suit
A Houston couple who accused a law firm and a since-dismissed Progressive unit of conspiring to share car crash victims' private information told a Texas federal court that their suit is "neither frivolous, unreasonable, nor improper" as they pushed back against the law firm's sanctions request.
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September 08, 2025
Chief Justice Pauses FTC Commissioner's Reinstatement
Chief Justice John Roberts issued an order Monday temporarily staying the reinstatement of Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter while the Trump administration fights to bring a case challenging her removal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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September 05, 2025
SEC Lost Year's Worth Of Gary Gensler Texts, Watchdog Says
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made "avoidable errors" that caused the agency to lose all text messages sent and received by former chair Gary Gensler for nearly a year of his tenure, some of which haven't been recovered, according to a report from the SEC's Office of Inspector General.
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September 05, 2025
Stewart Tackles Markets, Injunctions In Newest PTAB Reviews
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart released 14 institution decisions in the last week, providing more insight on the scope of settled expectations and the impact of a district court preliminary injunction.
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September 05, 2025
OnlyFans Users May Face Sanctions Over AI 'Misuse'
OnlyFans users who have alleged the site employs professional "chatters" to impersonate content creators are facing possible sanctions in their case, as a California federal judge ordered their attorneys to appear in court for filing briefs with nonexistent citations and quotations generated by an AI chatbot.
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September 05, 2025
Conde Nast Can't Shake Calif. Web Tracking Class Action
A California federal judge Thursday denied Conde Nast's bid to toss a class action claiming that the media giant installs online trackers to facilitate third-party data collection and browser activity tracking, saying the suit plausibly alleges a violation of a 60-year-old statute created to target eavesdropping devices.
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September 05, 2025
Temu Hit With $2M Penalty In FTC's 1st INFORM Act Case
The operator of Chinese e-commerce platform Temu has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's inaugural enforcement action under the INFORM Consumers Act, which requires online marketplaces to provide customers with certain information and tools to combat counterfeit goods offered by high-volume third-party sellers.
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September 05, 2025
Near Ch. 11 Litigation Trustee Sues MobileFuse In Del.
A litigation trustee for bankrupt data analytics company Near Intelligence Inc. has sued New York-based digital ad company MobileFuse LLC in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Delaware, alleging a multiyear circular payment conspiracy that cost Near more than $50.7 million.
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September 05, 2025
Democrat Slaughter Asks Justices To Let Her Stay On FTC
Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday not to pause her reinstatement while the Trump administration challenges lower court decisions holding that her firing was illegal, saying those decisions were plainly correct and she's in no danger of sowing "chaos."
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September 05, 2025
Disney Faces Class Action Over Kids' Data Use On YouTube
Entertainment giant Disney Co. targets millions of children by failing to mark YouTube videos as "made for kids," allowing third-party advertisers to collect their personal information illegally, according to a proposed class action filed Friday in California federal court.
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September 05, 2025
Debt Relief Co. Appeals Ƶ's $43M Win To 7th Circ.
The former owner of a defunct debt relief provider and the company have filed an appeal to the Seventh Circuit to challenge a ruling ordering them to pay more than $43 million in restitution and penalties to settle claims from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that the firm preyed on student loan borrowers.
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September 05, 2025
Fed. Circ. Sees No Issue With Commerce's $1.5B Award Redo
A Federal Circuit judge on Friday slammed an IT consulting firm's challenge to the U.S. Department of Commerce's reevaluation of a $1.5 billion information technology deal amid ongoing bid protests, saying nothing legally prevented the government from terminating the award.
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September 05, 2025
Drivers Demand GM, OnStar Data 'Snooping' Suit Roll On
Plaintiffs hoping to represent a nationwide class of up to 16 million drivers who were allegedly covertly surveilled by their General Motors cars urged a Georgia federal judge Friday to keep their suit alive, arguing GM used onboard devices to run a massive wiretapping and data mining scheme.
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September 05, 2025
Top Groups Lobbying The FCC
Lobbying slowed toward the end of the dog days, but the Federal Communications Commission heard from advocates nearly 100 times in August on issues like next-generation TV, satellite spectrum rules and 900 megahertz broadband.
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September 05, 2025
Judge Grills Gov't On Details Of IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Deal
A D.C. senior judge pressed a government attorney Friday over the specifics of the IRS' disclosure of tax return information to immigration enforcement agencies, saying the details were crucial to weighing a coalition of organizations' bid to block the practice.
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September 05, 2025
Mass. Justices Mull Privacy Issues In Era Of Online Records
Massachusetts' highest court heard arguments Friday in a pair of cases asking the justices to balance the public's right to access court documents against the privacy interests of potential medical malpractice victims and people charged with but later cleared of crimes.
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September 05, 2025
H&R Block User Drops Tax Privacy Suit Over Ad Trackers
An H&R Block user who accused the company, Google and Meta of illegally sharing his private tax information through online marketing tools dropped his proposed class action following federal court orders to arbitrate his claims, according to a filing in a California federal court.
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September 04, 2025
Texas AG Accuses PowerSchool Of Failing At Data Security
Texas' attorney general has become the latest to sue education technology provider PowerSchool Holdings Inc. over a 2024 data breach, asserting in a new state court lawsuit that the company failed to implement basic data security measure despite promising "state-of-the-art protections" for students' and employees' personal information.
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September 04, 2025
9th Circ. Affirms Dismissal Of Google-Apple Antitrust Suit
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed a lower court's decision dismissing a lawsuit alleging an antitrust conspiracy between Apple and Google over search engine technology, agreeing with the lower court that a restaurant meeting between the companies' CEOs is not sufficient evidence to back up the claims.
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September 04, 2025
FTC Hits Chinese Toy Maker For Gathering Kids' Location Data
A robot toy maker has agreed to comply with federal rules for handling children's data and ensure that its vendors are doing the same in order to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's claims that the company enabled a Chinese analytics provider to collect geolocation information from mobile app users who were younger than 13 without parental consent.
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September 04, 2025
Justices Asked To Block FTC Commissioner Reinstatement
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to block the reinstatement of Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter while it appeals a ruling that found her firing was illegal, and also asked the high court to take up the case.
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September 04, 2025
Atty Can't Duck TCPA Suit Over Camp Lejeune Calls
A North Carolina federal judge will not trim a proposed class action accusing a plaintiffs firm of making unsolicited calls to a number on the National Do Not Call Registry in an effort to secure a client in the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune toxic drinking water case, saying it doesn't matter if the lead plaintiff "invited" later calls.
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September 04, 2025
Coinbase Fights Password Co.'s IP Claims Over Login Method
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has sued password solutions company DynaPass Inc. seeking a declaratory judgment that Coinbase's secure sign-in method does not infringe on Dynapass' two-factor authentication method it patented nearly 20 years ago.
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September 04, 2025
FCC's Deregulatory Push Called Blueprint For Other Agencies
A conservative group said the Federal Communications Commission's recent initiative to shed regulations viewed as obsolete should serve as a model for other federal agencies looking to slash rules.
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September 04, 2025
OnlyFans' Parent Says AI-Tainted Briefs Are Unsalvageable
The online platform OnlyFans' parent company said that a bid to correct legal briefs in a proposed class action against the company should be denied, arguing that the decision to use artificial intelligence to create mistake-riddled documents is severe misconduct and the briefs should be struck instead.
Expert Analysis
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A Look At New Calif. Cybersecurity, Risk Assessment Rules
The California Privacy Protection Agency Board recently finalized regulations related to automated decision-making technology, cybersecurity audits and risk assessments that establish additional requirements on businesses operating in California, and although these new rules are less onerous than some of the draft rules, compliance may still require substantial planning and updates, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Lessons From 7th Circ.'s Deleted Chat Sanctions Ruling
The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Pable v. Chicago Transit Authority, affirming the dismissal of an ex-employee’s retaliation claims, highlights the importance of properly handling the preservation of ephemeral messages and clarifies key sanctions issues, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.
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Divest Order Shows How Security Fears Extend CFIUS Scope
A recent White House order forcing a Chinese company to divest its 2020 acquisition of a U.S. audiovisual supplier demonstrates the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ growing power to sink foreign transactions over national security concerns — and the enormous risks to U.S. companies from such reviews, say attorneys at Bass Berry.
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Series
Quilting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Turning intricate patterns of fabric and thread into quilts has taught me that craftsmanship, creative problem-solving and dedication to incremental progress are essential to creating something lasting that will help another person — just like in law, says Veronica McMillan at Kramon & Graham.
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Lessons Learned 3 Years After First CCPA Enforcement Action
Three years after the first public enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act, Attorney General Rob Bonta has pursued a steady stream of enforcement actions across industries, providing a clearer picture of how the law is being interpreted and enforced, says Tatum Andres at Kilpatrick.
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2 Appellate Rulings Offer Clickwrap Enforcement Road Map
Two recent decisions from the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits in cases involving Experian signal that federal appellate courts are recognizing clickwrap agreements' power in spite of their simplicity, and offer practical advice on how companies can sufficiently demonstrate notice and assent when attempting to enforce contractual terms, says Brian Willett at Saul Ewing.
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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.