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February 04, 2025
LinkedIn Shares Users' Info With Meta And Adobe, Suit Says
LinkedIn has been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court alleging it illegally shared with Meta and Adobe personal information belonging to its LinkedIn premium subscribers who watched online training courses on its LinkedIn Learning platform without their knowledge or permission.
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February 04, 2025
LendingTree Faces Consumer Claims Over Snowflake Breach
Online consumer lending platform LendingTree and an insurance comparison subsidiary are facing a proposed consumer class action based on a data breach of their cloud storage service, which affected personal information for "hundreds of millions of consumers."
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February 04, 2025
11th Circ. Urged To Adopt 'Consensus' On Officers' Immunity
A Georgia woman who was subjected to a strip and cavity search while visiting her husband in prison urged the full Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday to build on its prior ruling that her rights had been violated and to sweep away the prison officials' defenses of qualified immunity.
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February 04, 2025
Auto Cos., Mass. AG Make Final Case In 'Right To Repair' Fight
The stagnated four-year battle over a Massachusetts law requiring vehicle manufacturers to provide open access to vehicle telematics software saw its final salvos Tuesday as attorneys for an automotive industry group and the state clashed over the merits of the federal preemption case.
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February 04, 2025
Funeral Home BIPA Violations Not Covered, Insurer Says
An insurer told an Illinois federal court to dismiss a suit seeking $10 million in coverage for underlying litigation from a funeral home it insured, arguing that claims in a proposed class action by family members of decedents against the facility were all for noncovered biometric privacy violations.
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February 04, 2025
Apple Asks DC Circ. To Pause Google Search Case For Appeal
Apple has asked the D.C. Circuit to pause the remedies phase of the landmark monopolization case targeting Google's search dominance, arguing it needs to intervene to protect its contracts with Google that are worth billions of dollars each year.
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February 04, 2025
PE-Backed Identity Software Firm SailPoint Primes $1B IPO
Cybersecurity firm SailPoint on Tuesday unveiled plans for an estimated $1 billion initial public offering that would mark its return to public markets three years after a private-equity buyout, represented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and the underwriters' counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
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February 04, 2025
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn helped Meta Platforms Inc. stave off claims that Illinois' biometric privacy law broadly applies to nonusers' facial scans and assisted DoorDash Inc. in limiting its exposure in one of the first regulatory investigations under California's trailblazing data privacy law, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Meta Attacks Insurers' Bid To Remand Social Media MDL Row
Meta asked a Delaware federal court to postpone ruling on its insurers' request to remand a dispute over coverage for thousands of suits alleging harm from the company's social media platforms, saying the action will likely soon be transferred to multidistrict litigation in California alongside the underlying claims.
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February 03, 2025
Google Fights Uphill To Scrap Antitrust Verdict At 9th Circ.
A Ninth Circuit panel appeared skeptical on Monday of Google's bid to throw out Epic Games' antitrust trial win and injunction requiring Google to open its Play Store to rivals following Epic Games' partial antitrust loss against Apple, with each judge doubting that the Apple ruling is necessarily preclusive.
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February 03, 2025
Kochava Still Can't Get FTC Location Privacy Suit Thrown Out
An Idaho federal judge on Monday again refused to throw out the Federal Trade Commission's suit accusing mobile app analytics provider Kochava Inc. of selling consumers' geolocation data without proper consent, ruling that nothing meaningful has changed since Kochava's previous dismissal bid.
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February 03, 2025
Maryland Kids' Privacy Law Latest To Face Legal Challenge
Tech industry group NetChoice on Monday added to its growing list of lawsuits contesting the constitutionality of kids' online safety laws around the country, filing an action against a recently enacted Maryland law that it claims would force online platforms to act as "a digital speech police."
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February 03, 2025
Co.'s Coverage Suit Over $1.9M Email Spoof Scheme Tossed
An Alaska federal court on Monday officially dismissed a construction company's lawsuit accusing Travelers of a bad faith refusal to provide directors and officers coverage for a $1.9 million email spoofing scheme, days after the construction company filed a voluntary motion to dismiss with prejudice.
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February 03, 2025
DOJ Poised To Prosecute Threat-Makers Against DOGE
A federal prosecutor appointed by President Donald Trump offered Elon Musk his office's support to "protect" the work of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency headed by the billionaire businessman, including "legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people."
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February 03, 2025
11th Circ. Weighs Future Of SEC's Market Surveillance Tool
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday questioned whether brokerage firms were being unfairly burdened with the cost of building up a U.S. Securities and Exchange surveillance tool known as the consolidated audit trail while appearing unmoved by arguments that the surveillance tool should never have been built.
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February 03, 2025
Schumer Warns Of 'Hostile Takeover' From DOGE
Top Senate Democrats on Monday railed against access granted to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency that allowed the outfit's employees to tap into the U.S. Department of Treasury's federal payment system over the weekend.
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February 03, 2025
OpenAI, Microsoft Aim To Ax Musk's For-Profit Change Suit
OpenAI and Microsoft have urged a California federal court in separate motions to dismiss Elon Musk's antitrust and breach of contract lawsuit claiming OpenAI lied by telling investors it would always be a nonprofit artificial intelligence research organization, calling the allegations "conclusory" and lacking factual backing.
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February 03, 2025
Child Porn Victims Urge 9th Circ. To Revive Claims Against X
Child sex trafficking survivors urged the Ninth Circuit on Monday to revive allegations that X Corp. defectively designed its platform and knowingly benefited from sex trafficking when it refused to remove pornographic videos of the 13-year-old boys, arguing that X isn't shielded under Section 230.
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February 03, 2025
Trial Court Won't Pause Google Search Case For Apple Appeal
A D.C. federal court refused on Sunday to pause the remedies phase of the landmark monopolization case targeting Google's search dominance while Apple appeals a decision refusing to allow it to participate.
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February 03, 2025
Canadian Man Charged With $65M Crypto Hacking Scheme
A Canadian man was charged Monday in Brooklyn federal court with exploiting vulnerabilities in two cryptocurrency finance systems to steal about $65 million worth of investor funds.
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February 03, 2025
Attys For Blake Lively, Baldoni Warned Over Media Statements
Lawyers representing feuding actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in their "It Ends With Us" damages litigation agreed Monday to rein in public statements, after a Manhattan federal judge cited their duty not to taint a potential future jury pool.
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January 31, 2025
Ex-NC Lt. Gov. Drops Defamation Suit Against CNN
Ex-North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson dropped his federal defamation suit against CNN and a former porn-store clerk on Friday, saying in a post on social media site X that "costly litigation and political gamesmanship by my detractors makes clear that continuing to pursue retribution from CNN is a futile effort."
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January 31, 2025
LinkedIn Member Scraps Claims Over Use Of Data To Train AI
A LinkedIn subscriber has dropped his recently filed proposed class action accusing the company of unlawfully sharing the sensitive contents of paid users' private messages with third parties to train generative artificial intelligence models, a practice that the company has asserted it "never did."
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January 31, 2025
Small Biz Attys Jump Into 4th Circ. Shell Co. Law Challenge
A business group has urged the Fourth Circuit to stop the U.S. Department of the Treasury from enforcing a law that requires companies to disclose personal identifying information about their beneficial owners and applicants to the agency, saying the law exceeds the limit of Congress' power to regulate intrastate economic activity.
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January 31, 2025
Supreme Court Eyes Its 'Next Frontier' In FCC Delegation Case
A case about broadband subsidies will give the U.S. Supreme Court the chance to revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle that attorneys say could upend regulations in numerous industries and trigger a power shift that would make last term's shake-up of federal agency authority pale in comparison. And a majority of the court already appears to support its resurrection.
Expert Analysis
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DOD Cybersecurity Rule Will Burden And Benefit Contractors
The U.S. Department of Defense’s cybersecurity certification program, finalized in October, will pose tricky and expensive challenges for contractors, given its many requirements and the scarcity of third-party assessors who can provide certification, but companies may ultimately benefit from a narrower pool of competitors, say attorneys at Miles & Stockbridge.
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US Intellectual Property-Based Sanctions Could Be Imminent
A recent presidential delegation suggests that regulators may be ready to wield the sanctions authority found in the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act, which has been unutilized for the first 22 months of its life, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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9 Considerations Around Proposed Connected Vehicle Ban
Stakeholders should consider several aspects of the U.S. Department of Commerce's recent proposal to ban U.S. imports and sales of vehicles incorporating certain connectivity components made in China or Russia, including exempted transactions and vehicle hardware imports, say attorneys at Blank Rome.
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Legislation Most Likely To Pass In Lame Duck Session
As Congress begins its five-week post-election lame duck session, attorneys at Greenberg Traurig break down the legislative priorities and which proposals can be expected to pass.
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Putting NYDFS AI Cybersecurity Guidance Into Practice
New guidance from the New York Department of Financial Services explains how financial institutions should assess and mitigate cybersecurity risks associated with artificial intelligence, focusing on four main threats and highlighting how varying environments require specific mitigation measures, say attorneys at Saul Ewing.
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Promoting Diversity In The Selection Of ADR Neutrals
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Choosing neutrals from diverse backgrounds is an important step in promoting inclusion in the legal profession, and it can enhance the legitimacy and public perception of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Playing Ultimate Makes Us Better Lawyers
In addition to being fun, ultimate Frisbee has improved our legal careers by emphasizing the importance of professionalism, teamwork, perseverance, enthusiasm and vulnerability, say Arunabha Bhoumik and Adam Bernstein at Regeneron.
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How Property Insurance Coverage Shrank After The Pandemic
Insurers litigating property claims are leveraging rulings that provided relief in the COVID-19 context to reverse the former majority rule on physical loss or damage in all contexts, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata
Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.
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What FTC's 'Bitcoin ATM' Report Tells Us About Crypto Scams
The Federal Trade Commission's recent insights into bitcoin ATM scams highlight the technical evolution of fraudsters, the application of old scams to new technology, and the persistent financial impact on victims, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being
As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.
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6 Steps To Ready Defense Contractors For Cybersecurity Rule
Following the U.S. Department of Defense's final rule establishing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in federal regulations, Sandeep Kathuria at Ice Miller provides a refresher on CMMC and identifies best practices for defense contractors awaiting full implementation of CMMC.
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Takeaways From The IRS' Crypto Doc Summons Win
A recent First Circuit decision holding that taxpayers do not have a Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in cryptocurrency transaction records should prompt both taxpayers and exchanges to take stock of past transactions and future plans, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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A Novel Expansion Of Alien Tort Statute In 9th Circ.
The Ninth Circuit's Doe v. Cisco rehearing denial allows a new invocation of the Alien Tort Statute to proceed, which could capture the U.S. Supreme Court's attention, and has potentially dramatic consequences for U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes
Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.