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September 22, 2025
Meta Can't Ditch Revived Contract Fight Over Scam Ads
A California federal judge Monday trimmed a proposed consumer class action against Meta Platforms Inc. over Chinese vendors' scam ads on Facebook and Instagram that was recently revived by the Ninth Circuit, tossing for good a negligent failure-to-warn claim, but keeping intact the consumers' remaining contact claims.
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September 22, 2025
SEC Sues NC Man For 'Free-Riding' Securities Scheme
A North Carolina man faces U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that he systematically gamed certain broker-dealers to engage in a so-called free-riding scheme that enabled him to trade nearly $900,000 worth of securities despite not actually possessing the funds to do so.
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September 22, 2025
T-Mobile, Sprint Push DC Circ. To Revisit $92M FCC Fines
T-Mobile and Sprint are asking the full D.C. Circuit to review a $92 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission over their sale of sensitive user location data with third-party companies, asking for an en banc rehearing of their challenge after a three-judge panel unanimously affirmed the penalty last month.
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September 22, 2025
Parents Want Roblox Grooming Suits Consolidated In Calif.
Parents who claim their children were groomed and exploited by sexual predators on Roblox's popular gaming platform say their cases should be consolidated and sent to the Northern District of California since their cases are almost identical, according to a recent petition.
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September 22, 2025
Tech Groups Ask To Maintain Block On Fla. Social Media Law
Tech industry organizations and civil rights groups threw their support behind two groups challenging a Florida law banning children 13 and under from social media, telling the Eleventh Circuit the law is an unconstitutional regulation of speech.
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September 22, 2025
Experian Asks 4th Circ. To Reverse Arb. Ruling In FCRA Suit
Consumer reporting agency Experian has asked the Fourth Circuit to overturn a lower court's decision concerning the arbitration of a lawsuit brought by a consumer falsely reported as dead, saying the judge was wrong not to enforce clauses in the consumer's agreement that delegated such decisions to an arbitrator.
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September 22, 2025
Barclays Credit Card User Must Arbitrate Meta Privacy Suit
A Barclays customer must arbitrate his putative class action alleging it discloses his interactions on the bank's website with Meta Platforms Inc. while logged into his Barclays account, after a New York federal judge said Friday his subsequent use of his credit cards supports that he received cardholder agreements containing arbitration provisions.
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September 22, 2025
High Court Allows FTC Firing, Will Review Trump's Power
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that President Donald Trump can fire Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause, and it agreed to reconsider limits on the president's authority to remove members of the FTC.
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September 19, 2025
EU-US Data Transfer Ruling Delivers Relief But Not Finality
A recent court decision backing a revamped framework for transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States provided companies with some much-needed comfort after nearly a decade of setbacks although that reprieve might be short-lived as opponents eye a broader challenge to the critical arrangement.
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September 19, 2025
Fla. Court OKs $20M Settlement In Fortra Data Breach MDL
A Florida federal judge gave final approval to a $20 million class action settlement as part of multidistrict litigation over theft of personal information from millions of U.S. citizens in a health data breach tied to a Russian ransomware group.
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September 19, 2025
MLB App Breaches Led To Lost, Stolen Tickets, Fan Claims
Major League Baseball's mobile ticketing app has had systemic security breaches resulting in the disappearance or theft of game tickets throughout the season, with MLB failing to fully acknowledge the problem and leaving fans "in the lurch,'' according to a proposed class action in New York federal court.
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September 19, 2025
Treasury Launches Stablecoin Rule Push With Call For Input
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday asked for public input on key regulatory considerations for stablecoins as it begins crafting rules to govern the stable-value crypto tokens under the recently signed Genius Act.
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September 19, 2025
CFPB Union Drops Suit Over DOGE Access To Worker Data
The National Treasury Employees Union on Friday dropped a lawsuit seeking to block Department of Government Efficiency access to personnel data at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a move that comes as the union assesses next steps in its other, higher-profile challenge to the consumer agency's downsizing.
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September 19, 2025
Privacy Class Suit Over Meta Code On Sports Site Stays Alive
A California man's proposed class action accusing a website that provides free instructional sports videos of invading his privacy by way of Meta Platforms Inc. code will continue in federal court, after a judge denied the website's motions to dismiss the suit and to change the venue.
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September 19, 2025
FTC Restructuring Its Non-DC Offices Under Single Banner
The head of the Federal Trade Commission's Competition Bureau said in New York City remarks Friday that the agency is restructuring its offices outside its Washington, D.C., base so that those satellite units operate as a single division under an "easier, cleaner, more efficient reporting structure."
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September 18, 2025
MrBeast Ads, Kids' Privacy Practices Draw Watchdog Scrutiny
An industry self-regulatory body has urged the media company created by YouTube personality MrBeast to revamp the way it advertises to and collects personal information from children, after identifying several issues with how the company presented ads on YouTube videos and promoted its Feastables chocolate brand.
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September 18, 2025
FCC Should Follow Exec Branch Policy, Commissioner Says
As President Donald Trump continues to get more involved in the operations of independent federal agencies, a member of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday the FCC needs to remain accountable to the executive branch.
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September 18, 2025
Amazon Must Face Buyers' Antitrust Suit Over Pricing Policy
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed consumers' lawsuit targeting a policy Amazon had in place until March 2019 that restricted sellers from offering cheaper prices elsewhere to proceed under antitrust and consumer protection laws in 25 states, but tossed claims brought under Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee laws.
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September 18, 2025
Dems Demand DOJ Explain Binance Plea Deal Compliance
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and two of her Democratic colleagues have asked U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for information on Binance's compliance with its 2023 plea agreement stemming from anti-money laundering lapses, pointing to President Donald Trump's ties to the crypto exchange.
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September 18, 2025
2nd Circ. To Weigh EFTA's Scope In NY's Citi Wire Fraud Case
The Second Circuit has granted Citibank's request for an appeal in its fight with New York Attorney General Letitia James over the bank's response to incidents of online wire transfer fraud, agreeing to review whether key federal consumer protections for electronic payments apply to wire transfers initiated over the internet.
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September 18, 2025
IRS Discloses Details On ICE Agreement In Data Sharing Row
The U.S. government disclosed additional details Thursday on the agreement between the IRS and immigration enforcement authorities to share confidential tax return information, including who had necessary permissions to access the disclosures, following a D.C. federal judge's order in a lawsuit seeking to end the interagency data sharing.
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September 18, 2025
Gov't Told GPS Signal Jamming Growing Far Worse
More than a dozen trade groups banded together to tell federal agencies that GPS signal jamming is a growing concern to U.S. industries in international waters and airspace.
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September 18, 2025
AI Firm's Ex-CTO Barred From Using Trade Secrets
A Washington federal judge has barred an artificial intelligence startup's former chief technology officer from using trade secrets to hurt the company, making disparaging statements about it or contacting the company's current or prospective customers.
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September 18, 2025
DOJ's Slater Says Google Search Fixes Set AI 'Foundation'
The head of the Justice Department Antitrust Division left the door open Thursday to appealing a D.C. federal judge's rejection of the government's most sweeping remedies proposals targeting Google's search monopoly, even as she used New York City remarks to tout the fixes the government did manage to win.
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September 18, 2025
Natixis Seeks Privacy Monitor For Madoff Document Handover
French investment manager Natixis wants a court-ordered international privacy monitor to oversee its transfer of discovery materials to the trustee administering the bankruptcy estate of Bernard Madoff in the trustee's $214 million clawback lawsuit against it.
Expert Analysis
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5 Things Manufacturing GCs Should Know About Cyber Risk
Following a recent government report underscoring the growing cyber threat landscape for manufacturers, general counsel in the sector should be aware of the potentially broad consequences of a cyberattack, evolving notification systems and the need for incident response plans, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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Challenging A Class Representative's Adequacy And Typicality
Recent cases highlight that a named plaintiff cannot certify a putative class action unless they can meet all the applicable requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so defendants should consider challenging a plaintiff's ability to meet typicality and adequacy requirements early and often, say attorneys at Womble Bond.
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Opinion
4 Former Justices Would Likely Frown On Litigation Funding
As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
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What To Know About Bill Aiming To Curb CIPA
A bill pending in the California Assembly would amend the California Invasion of Privacy Act to allow for the use of website tracking technologies for commercial business purposes, limiting class actions seeking damages under the act for industry standard practices, say Katherine Alphonso and Avazeh Pourhamzeh at Kaufman Dolowich.
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Tips For Managing Social Media And International Travel Risks
Employers should familiarize themselves with the legal framework governing border searches and adopt specific risk management practices that address increasing scrutiny of employees’ social media activities by immigration enforcement, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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How Attys Can Use AI To Surface Narratives In E-Discovery
E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.
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How McKesson Ruling Will Inform Interpretations Of The TCPA
Amid the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson, we can expect to see both plaintiffs and defendants utilizing the decision to revisit the Federal Communications Commission's past Telephone Consumer Protection Act interpretations and decisions they did not like, says Jason McElroy at Saul Ewing.
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Examining TCPA Jurisprudence A Year After Loper Bright
One year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, lower court decisions demonstrate that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act will continue to evolve as long-standing interpretations of the act are analyzed with a fresh lens, says Aaron Gallardo at Kilpatrick.
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Gauging The Risky Business Of Business Risk Disclosures
With the recent rise of securities fraud actions based on external events — like a data breach or environmental disaster — that drive down stock prices, risk disclosures have become more of a sword for the plaintiffs bar than a shield for public companies, now the subject of a growing circuit split, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.
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Series
Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.
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Employer Tips As Deepfakes Reshape Workplace Harassment
As the workplace harassment landscape faces the rising threat of fabricated media that hyperrealistically depict employees in sexual or malicious contexts, employers can stay ahead of the curve by tracking new legal obligations, and proactively updating policies, training and response protocols, say attorneys at Littler.
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Series
NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2
In the second quarter of the year, New York utilized every available tool to fill gaps left by federal retrenchment from consumer finance issues, including sweeping updates to its consumer protection framework and notable amendments to cybersecurity rules, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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NM Cyber Ruling Will Spur Litigation As Coverage Remedy
In Kane v. Beazley, the New Mexico Court of Appeals recently found that a cyber liability provision insuring security breaches included coverage for funds transfer fraud, implicitly and incorrectly motivating policyholders to commence litigation to avoid contractual limitations on cyber coverages, say attorneys at Zelle.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care
Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard at MG+M.
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New Laws Show How States Are Checking AI Developers
Recent state consumer protection legislation shows Utah, Colorado and Texas are primed to impose controls on artificial intelligence, and exemplifies the states' unwillingness to accord strong deference to developers and deployers of AI tools, say attorneys at Polsinelli.