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April 14, 2026
A pair of bipartisan legislative proposals to boost online safeguards for children sailed through a key U.S. Senate committee Tuesday, including a measure that would require social media platforms to display clear mental health warning labels each time a user accesses the service.
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April 14, 2026
Virginia has become the third state to ban the sale of consumers' precise geolocation data, following the governor's signature on Monday of legislation that received overwhelming backing from lawmakers and consumer advocates, and backlash from the advertising industry.
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April 14, 2026
California Northern District federal judges are seeking public comment on modifying local court rules to allow jurists to audio stream civil jury trials in the district, which regularly presides over high-stakes courtroom fights involving tech giants such as Google, Meta, OpenAI and Apple.
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April 14, 2026
A defense contractor fired two executives who reported a $1.9 million fraud scheme on a classified government contract, but retained the manager who orchestrated it, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Colorado federal court.
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April 14, 2026
A California federal judge on Tuesday granted an uncontested bid by school district plaintiffs to bar Meta and other social media companies from using nonpublic information — including their internal data — to investigate potential jurors for an upcoming bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over the alleged harms of social media addiction.
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April 14, 2026
A key U.S. Senate committee passed a pair of bills Tuesday aimed at improving satellite network security, in part by restricting market access in the U.S. to prevent authorizations for foreign actors deemed as risky.
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April 14, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission isn't done with the covered list yet — later this month the agency will consider changing its rules to expand the reach of the list, so any entity placed on it will no longer be able to provide interstate communications services.
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April 14, 2026
University of Michigan officials hoping to escape multidistrict litigation have said student-athletes cannot show the school or its staff were indifferent to the alleged sexual harassment the student-athletes endured after having their accounts hacked by a former assistant football coach.
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April 14, 2026
A Hims customer filed a proposed class action in California federal court Tuesday alleging the telehealth company, which provides prescription and over-the-counter medications for weight loss, sexual health, hair growth and personal care, failed to prevent a foreseeable data breach and waited two months to notify affected customers.
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April 14, 2026
The Fourth Circuit affirmed Tuesday a former hospital transplant coordinator's conviction for illegally accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records, upholding a ruling that the defendant was not improperly coerced when he told FBI agents a coworker or his cat may have been responsible.
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April 14, 2026
OpenAI is pushing back after Elon Musk said he would seek to have Sam Altman removed as the artificial intelligence company's CEO in a case challenging its conversion to a for-profit entity, telling a California federal court that the last-minute change adds a host of issues just weeks before trial.
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April 14, 2026
A Colorado dietary supplement company violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by bombarding consumers with unsolicited telemarketing text messages despite their numbers being listed on the national Do Not Call Registry, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Colorado federal court.
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April 14, 2026
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff entered default judgment Tuesday at the request of a group of music companies against the online shadow library Anna's Archive, calling the piracy instigated by the site one of the most "horrendous acts of piracy brought to my attention."
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April 13, 2026
A California federal judge must take a fresh look at parts of IXL Learning Inc.'s bid to arbitrate a proposed class action alleging the education technology company unlawfully collected and sold children's personal information, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, saying the lower court "misallocated the burden of proof on mutual assent."
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April 13, 2026
Cannabis giant Verano exposed the private data of at least half a million of its medical marijuana customers, according to a proposed class action removed to federal court that alleges the company turned ordinary receipts into "highly sensitive medical records."
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April 13, 2026
An Oregon man has not shown that he is entitled to a share of profits from a purported joint venture in cryptocurrency investment involving a once close friend, the Second Circuit said Monday, affirming a Manhattan federal judge's dismissal of the claims.
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April 13, 2026
An Illinois federal judge tasked with recalculating damages from a home health company's referral kickback scheme said Monday that she needs more complete and reliable evidence to help determine the appropriate amount, but allowed the government to continue offsetting Medicare payments as part of its judgment collection bid.
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April 13, 2026
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Monday that it has hired a onetime BigLaw partner to take over its consumer protection division and brought in a former Oregon community bank executive to become the agency's top innovation official.
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April 13, 2026
Meta's recent state jury losses in suits over social media's harms to mental health provide clues as to what will happen this summer when a school district's suit against social platforms goes to trial in the first federal bellwether — and down the road in appeals some believe will reach the nation's high court.
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April 13, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-stakes settlements, fast-moving deal litigation, governance disputes and a notable post-trial ruling involving fraud-tainted loans.
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April 13, 2026
Rapper Cardi B has urged a Florida bankruptcy judge to sanction Tasha K, alleging the bankrupt YouTuber has been defying the terms of her own Chapter 11 Subchapter V plan by continuing a pattern of disparaging comments that had led to a nearly $4 million defamation judgment.
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April 13, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has selected a nonprofit group focused on security of the Internet of Things as the next entity to run the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a government-endorsed seal of approval for devices.
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April 13, 2026
Columbia University has asked a Federal Circuit panel to partly reconsider a decision discarding a nine-figure patent judgment against the maker of Norton antivirus software, saying the university did request a jury instruction on foreign sales damages that the appeals court said it did not seek.
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April 13, 2026
Honey Baked Ham fraudulently assures website visitors they have control over whether their data is tracked or shared, but secretly records and discloses that information to third parties anyway without the visitors' consent, according to a proposed class action filed Friday in Georgia federal court.
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April 13, 2026
Iridium wants the Federal Communications Commission to push back against a European proposal that it says would "unfairly target" the satellite phone provider with new restrictions.