January 02, 2023
A U.S. Supreme Court case regarding the broad liability shield enjoyed by internet companies and another high court case that could decide whether private rights of action are still allowed under a federal nursing home law are among the cases injury and malpractice attorneys will be following in 2023.
January 02, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission's ambitious consumer protection rulemaking and enforcement efforts will continue to command the spotlight in 2023 along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's challenge to a ruling that threatens to dismantle the agency's work and a looming U.S. Supreme Court decision that could spell the end of a long-standing Big Tech liability shield.
January 02, 2023
The new year brings a host of hot-button cases for the U.S. Supreme Court justices, who will tackle everything from President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan to Section 230 immunity for Big Tech companies over the next six months before the summer recess. Here, Law360 highlights the big-ticket items.
December 08, 2022
The U.S. government is asking the Supreme Court to undo a Ninth Circuit ruling that a family's Anti-Terrorism Act claims against Google LLC are barred by federal law immunizing websites against claims about third-party content, saying YouTube's recommendations algorithm is its own creation and not subject to the bar.
December 07, 2022
Republican senators, former national security officials and the state of Texas are lining up to tell the U.S. Supreme Court that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act wasn't meant to shield companies like Google from the ramifications of recommending videos promoting terrorist ideologies.
December 01, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court should limit the broad legal immunity afforded to tech companies under the Communications Decency Act, the family of a Paris terrorist attack victim has told the justices in calling for a way to hold YouTube accountable for recommending ISIS propaganda videos to susceptible users.
November 04, 2022
This past week saw arguments in two highly anticipated cases over affirmative action at colleges and two more involving post-conviction relief for prisoners, as well as a protest that interrupted the justices' consideration of a tax case. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
October 28, 2022
While tracking cases related to their own practice, intellectual property attorneys may not have seen that, elsewhere in law, judges have cracked down on attorneys acting poorly, a new justice heard her first oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court and satirical news site The Onion made a plea to the high court in support of parody. Here, Law360 breaks down why seemingly irrelevant developments are worth your time.
October 04, 2022
The tech world has been waiting with bated breath to see whether the U.S. Supreme Court would reconsider the broad immunity currently enjoyed by internet giants like Google and Twitter under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. But now that the justices have decided to review the protections, the industry must wait to find out what that means for the companies and the millions who use them.
October 03, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to reconsider the broad legal immunity afforded to internet companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, taking up a suit claiming YouTube recommended ISIS propaganda that spawned a terrorist attack.