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  1. March 13, 2025

    Calif. Kids' Privacy Law Again Fails Constitutional Challenge

    A California federal judge on Thursday again blocked the state from enforcing a landmark law requiring tech giants to bolster privacy protections for children, finding that a second review of the dispute didn't change the conclusion that tech trade group NetChoice was likely to succeed with its First Amendment challenge. 

  2. January 23, 2025

    Calif. Kids' Privacy Law Ignores 1st Amendment, Judge Says

    A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to preliminarily blocking for the second time a landmark California law requiring tech giants to bolster privacy protections for children, telling the state's counsel that nothing shows the Legislature "cared one whit about the Constitution," and "now you're trying to reverse engineer it."

  3. July 17, 2024

    Calif. Asks 9th Circ. To Lift Injunction On Kids' Privacy Law

    California urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to remove an injunction blocking a groundbreaking new law requiring social media platforms to bolster privacy protections for children, defending the protections and arguing that any unconstitutional provision should be severed following the U.S. Supreme Court's Moody v. NetChoice decision.

  4. January 01, 2024

    California Cases To Watch In 2024

    Legal experts following Golden State courts in 2024 are tracking groundbreaking lawsuits against artificial-intelligence developers brought by content creators, high-stakes antitrust cases against BigTech companies, and a wave of fresh litigation over the scope of California's Private Attorneys General Act.

  5. November 02, 2023

    Kids' Online Safety Push Runs Into Constitutional Steamroller

    Free speech concerns have temporarily derailed a California law requiring companies to do more to protect children online and an Arkansas law aimed at limiting kids' social media access, which is likely to have a ripple effect on wide-ranging state and federal efforts to boost minors' digital safety. 

  6. October 18, 2023

    Calif. AG Appeals Ruling Blocking Kids' Online Safety Law

    California's attorney general is taking his bid to overturn a recent ruling temporarily halting a groundbreaking new state law requiring social media platforms to bolster their privacy protections for children to the Ninth Circuit, arguing that the lower court was "wrong" to block the measure from moving forward. 

  7. September 18, 2023

    Calif. Law Boosting Kids' Online Privacy Blocked For Now

    A California federal judge on Monday temporarily halted state officials from enforcing a groundbreaking new law requiring social media platforms to bolster their privacy protections for children, finding that a Big Tech trade association had shown it was "likely to succeed" with its constitutional challenge to the measure.

  8. July 27, 2023

    Calif. Judge Voices Concerns About Kid Internet Privacy Law

    A California federal judge on Thursday expressed concerns about a new state law requiring social media platforms to bolster their privacy protections for children, praising its goal but ordering the state attorney general and a Big Tech trade association challenging the law to file additional briefing on its scope.

  9. April 25, 2023

    Calif. AG Defends Constitutionality Of Kids' Online Protections

    The California attorney general fired back against a Big Tech trade association's bid to block a new Golden State law that requires social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to bolster their privacy protections for children, arguing that the law "operates well within constitutional parameters."

  10. February 23, 2023

    Big Tech Advocate Wants To Block Calif. Internet Safety Law

    A trade association representing Big Tech is trying to block California's new online privacy rules for children while it challenges those restrictions in court, calling the regulations "the most extensive attempt by any state to censor speech since the birth of the internet."