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April 17, 2025
Planned Parenthood Patients Sue Lab Co. Over Data Breach
A Washington state-based diagnostic testing services provider for Planned Parenthood has been hit with a pair of proposed class actions in Seattle federal court over an October data breach that reportedly impacted as many as 1.6 million people.
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April 17, 2025
Prudential Financial Beats Certified Privacy Class Action
A California federal judge on Thursday entered a summary judgment favoring Prudential Financial and a software vendor in a certified class action accusing them of illegally recording consumer information in violation of the state's invasion of privacy law, finding that no evidence showed the vendor read or tried to read customers' communications.
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April 17, 2025
Wash. Justices Back Consumers In Old Navy Spam Email Suit
Washington's highest court said in a 5-4 ruling Thursday that the state's spam law bars commercial emails that include any false information in their subject lines, endorsing two consumers' broader interpretation of the statute in a proposed class action against Old Navy.
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April 17, 2025
Litigation Funder Sued In NC Over Data Breach
Companies that offer medical lien and presettlement funding for personal injury plaintiffs were hit Thursday with a proposed class action accusing them of allowing hackers to obtain the sensitive data of "thousands to tens of thousands" of clients, according to a complaint filed in North Carolina federal court.
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April 17, 2025
Robocall Arb. Denied Despite Alleged Recording Of Consent
A federal judge declined to force a Tennessee man into arbitration in his suit accusing a health insurance brokerage of making illegal robocalls, ruling that the plaintiff had created enough doubt to get to trial.
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April 17, 2025
Think Tank Urges FCC To Drop $4.5M Fine Against Telnyx
A think tank claimed Thursday the Federal Communications Commission went too far when floating a nearly $4.5 million fine against a telecom for alleged robocall violations and that due process concerns call for rescinding the penalty.
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April 17, 2025
Mercer University's Data Breach Settlement Gets Final OK
Mercer University and a group of former students and a professor got final approval Thursday for a settlement that will end claims the university failed to safeguard the personal information of some 93,000 people leading up to a 2023 data breach.
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April 17, 2025
SolarWinds Sued For Docs On $4.4B Take-Private Deal
Citing company controller clout and alleged minority stockholder sidelining, a SolarWinds Corp. stock-owning trust has sued in Delaware's Court of Chancery for documents related to the company's $4.4 billion, $18.50-per-share take-public deal from Turn/River Capital LP.
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April 17, 2025
AFL-CIO, Unions Can Pursue Some DOGE Access Claims
The AFL-CIO, unions and advocacy groups may pursue allegations that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency lacks the power to access data from the U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies, a D.C. federal judge ruled while tossing some claims under federal administrative and privacy law.
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April 17, 2025
Yale Health System Faces Class Claims Over Data Breach
Connecticut's largest healthcare system failed to properly secure patients' personal information ahead of a data breach in March that may have affected millions of people, according to three proposed class actions.
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April 17, 2025
NJ Says Discord Misled Public About Messaging App's Safety
New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin alleged in a complaint Thursday that popular messaging app Discord has misled kids and parents for years about the app's safety, leaving children vulnerable to harassment, abuse and sexual exploitation.
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April 16, 2025
Accellion Breach Victims Fight Uphill To Get Class Cert.
A California federal judge Wednesday doubted whether a class of 5 million individuals could be certified on claims that file-sharing software-maker Accellion negligently failed to protect against cyberattacks in light of the high court's TransUnion ruling, adding that it would be a "Herculean task" to determine certain classwide damages.
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April 16, 2025
Zuckerberg Calls TikTok Meta's 'Highest Competitive Threat'
Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back Wednesday on Federal Trade Commission efforts to cabin the company's allegedly monopolistic social media dominance into a market that excludes TikTok and YouTube, telling a D.C. federal judge video has become the new predominant form of social media interaction.
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April 16, 2025
Computer Equipment Co. Wants Suit Over Sales Decline Axed
Cloud network equipment company Extreme Networks Inc. has asked a federal judge in California to toss a lawsuit alleging it misled investors about its financial prospects and declining client demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing the existence of undisclosed information, by itself, is not misleading.
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April 16, 2025
Staffing Co. To Pay $1.5M To End Ill. Bio Privacy Suit
Staffing and payroll provider DX Enterprises Inc. has reached a $1.52 million deal to end claims that it collected without written consent worker fingerprints that it used to track when laborers punched into and out of a job, with an Illinois federal judge granting final approval.
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April 16, 2025
Blue Shield Of California Sued Over Google's Patient Data Use
Blue Shield of California was slapped with a putative class action in California state court Monday, days after the health insurer announced that the personal data of some of its patients had been "impermissibly" shared due to its use of Google Analytics on its websites.
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April 16, 2025
Limits On Conn. Biz Law Stay In Effect In Sandy Hook Case
A Connecticut appeals court's $150 million paring of a $1.44 billion judgment against Infowars host Alex Jones for defaming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims' families was a shift away from a broader view of the state's most popular business litigation statute, several experts told Law360.
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April 16, 2025
Lindell Claims 'I'm In Ruins,' Can't Pay Smartmatic Sanctions
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a D.C. federal judge that he has "no money" to pay the $56,369 in sanctions he was ordered to for filing third-party counterclaims against election systems company Smartmatic, saying Wednesday that he is "in ruins."
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April 16, 2025
Ohio's 'Breathtakingly Blunt' Social Media Age Limit Law Axed
Ohio's law requiring social media companies to obtain parental consent before allowing a child under the age of 16 to make an account has been struck down after a federal judge said the legislation "fails to pass constitutional muster and is constitutionally infirm."
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April 16, 2025
Bankers Ask FCC To Pare Back Call Consent Rules
While the Federal Communications Commission is deciding which regulations to slash, a coalition of banking groups is hoping the agency will hone in on telemarketing consent rules that they say make it harder for them to reach out to their customers.
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April 16, 2025
Students, UMich Seek To Merge Ex-Coach Hacking Suits
Students alleging the University of Michigan didn't protect them from a former assistant football coach's purported hacking and downloading of intimate photos, and the university urged a federal judge to consolidate the eight different actions launched following the coach's indictment.
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April 16, 2025
DC Judge Considers Bid To Block IRS Info Sharing With ICE
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether immigrant advocacy groups have standing to block a tax information-sharing agreement between the IRS and immigration enforcement agencies, but she also outlined concerns that the agreement could be abused.
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April 16, 2025
Musk Rips Calif. AG Decision To Not Join Suit Against OpenAI
Elon Musk blasted a California attorney general's office decision declining to join his federal lawsuit against OpenAI, saying in a Tuesday filing the decision appears to "misapprehend" the complaint and its derivative claims and "mischaracterizes or misunderstands" the consortium of investors he's assembled to bid on OpenAI Inc.'s assets.
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April 16, 2025
Airport Shops' $6.9M Data Breach Deal Cleared For Landing
A Georgia federal judge has given preliminary approval to a nearly $6.9 million settlement that would end a suit between airport retailer Paradies Shops and a proposed class of employees who claim their data was compromised in a 2020 ransomware attack.
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April 16, 2025
ParkMobile Customer Attys Seek $6.2M In Fees On $30M Deal
The attorneys behind a more than $30 million settlement with parking app ParkMobile asked a federal judge this week to sign off on nearly $6.2 million in fees for their work prosecuting the nationwide class action.
Expert Analysis
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The Justices' Securities Rulings, Dismissals That Defined '24
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 securities rulings led to increased success for defendants' price impact arguments, but the justices' decisions not to weigh in on important issues relating to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's pleading requirements may be just as significant, say attorneys at Skadden.
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10 Noteworthy ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Developments From 2024
In a banner year for consumer finance regulation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made significant strides in its efforts to rein in Big Tech and nonbank financial firms, including via rules regarding open banking, credit card late fees, and buy now, pay later products, say attorneys at Wiley.
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Series
Fixing Up Cars Makes Me A Better Lawyer
From problem-solving to patience and adaptability to organization, the skills developed working under the hood of a car directly translate to being a more effective lawyer, says Christopher Mdeway at Kaufman Dolowich.
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Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team
In a compressed economy, convincing the C-suite to invest in additional legal talent can be a herculean task, but a convincing pitch — supported by metrics and cost analyses — may help in-house counsel justify the growth of their team, say Elizabeth Smith and Roger Garceau at Major Lindsey.
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Data Privacy Landscape After Mass. Justices' Wiretap Ruling
In Vita v. New England Baptist Hospital, Massachusetts’ highest court recently ruled that the state’s wiretap law doesn’t prohibit all tracking of website user activity, but major financial and reputational risks remain for businesses that aren't transparent about customer’s web data, says Seth Berman at Nutter.
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Opinion
Justices Rightly Corrected Course In Nvidia And Facebook
By dismissing both the Nvidia and Facebook class actions, over investors' ability to hold corporations accountable for fraud, the U.S. Supreme Court was right in refusing to favor corporations over transparency, and reaffirmed its commitment to corporate accountability, investor protection and the rule of law, says Laura Posner at Cohen Milstein.
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Gov't Scrutiny Of Workplace Chat Apps Set To Keep Growing
The incoming Trump administration and Republican majorities in Congress are poised to open numerous investigations that include increasing demands for entities to produce communications from workplace chat apps, so companies must evaluate their usage and retention policies, say attorneys at Orrick.
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Unwrapping Retailer AI Risks Amid Holiday Shopping Season
While generative artificial intelligence tools can catalyze game-changing results for retailers looking to stay ahead of the competition during the holiday season, and year-round, it can also bring certain legal risks, including product liability concerns, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US
As globalization manifests itself in disputes over foreign-created documents, a California federal court’s recent trademark decision illustrates nuances of both U.S. privilege frameworks and foreign evidentiary protections that attorneys must increasingly bear in mind, say attorneys at Hunton.
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Changes To Expect From SEC Under Trump Nominee
President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Paul Atkins for U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair will likely lead to significant shifts in the Division of Enforcement's priorities, likely focused on protecting retail investors and the stability of the capital markets, say attorneys at Morrison Foerster.
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'Minimal Participant' Bar Is Tough To Clear For Whistleblowers
Under the U.S. Department of Justice’s corporate whistleblower pilot program, would-be whistleblowers will find it tough to show that they only minimally participated in criminal misconduct while still providing material information, but sentencing precedent shows how they might prove their eligibility for an award, say attorneys at MoloLamken.
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Preparing For More Limber Federal Supply Chain Oversight
Ahead of the Federal Acquisition Security Council Improvement Act, which would speed up federal acquisition security risk investigations and federal procurement bans, companies should take steps to identify indirect involvement with foreign adversaries in their supply chains and prepare to respond quickly to a FASC recommendation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Impact Of Corporate Transparency Act Ambiguity On Banks
Even though banks generally needn't file beneficial ownership information reports, financial institutions must continue to monitor the status of the Corporate Transparency Act and understand its requirements in case the nationwide injunction that was issued against the CTA earlier this month is overturned, say attorneys at Armstrong Teasdale.
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What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025
The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends — from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges — providing clues for what’s to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.
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Expect Continuity In 2025 Anti-Money Laundering Policy
The past year has seen a range of anti-money laundering actions from federal financial regulators, and notwithstanding the imminent change from the Biden administration to the Trump administration, continuity may be more prevalent than change in the AML compliance space in 2025, say attorneys at White & Case.