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April 28, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical Tuesday of Cisco Systems Inc.'s argument that the Alien Tort Statute categorically bars claims for aiding and abetting alleged human rights violations, with several justices suggesting the viability of such claims should turn on the facts of each specific case.
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April 28, 2026
The U.S. Department of Defense took aim at Clement & Murphy PLLC and Jenner & Block LLP's request for "inflated" attorney fees in their successful challenge to a DOD cap on indirect research costs, urging a federal judge to reject the request or, in the alternative, award about a quarter of the firms' $530,000 ask.
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April 28, 2026
An electronic database showing the outcome of a Pennsylvania county's vote is a report generated by tabulating equipment, not the "contents" of a ballot box or voting machine protected from public disclosure, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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April 28, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on a plan to require telecoms that originate voice traffic to follow "know your customer" standards before allowing robocall campaigns on their networks.
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April 28, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of claims by two women who allege that Facebook's algorithms contributed to their villages being attacked as part of the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, saying that under circuit precedent, those claims are blocked by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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April 28, 2026
GrayRobinson PA has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Florida-based firm of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach that exposed the personal data of around 65,000 people.
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April 28, 2026
European enforcers are calling on Google to give competing artificial intelligence services open access to key Android features and functions, but the tech giant said the changes are unnecessary and would undermine privacy and security protections.
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April 28, 2026
A Chinese citizen has appeared before a Houston federal court after being extradited from Italy to face charges for his alleged role in the Microsoft "HAFNIUM" cyberattack that was allegedly orchestrated by the Chinese government to target U.S. COVID-19 research.
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April 27, 2026
The California Privacy Protection Agency is the latest to speak out against a recent congressional proposal to establish a federal data privacy framework that would wipe out more stringent state protections, arguing Monday that this approach would be a "significant step backward" in efforts to shield consumers from data misuse.
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April 27, 2026
After a run of litigation losses, Meta Platforms Inc. will have to rethink its strategy in and out of court in an effort to beat back suits from coast to coast claiming that it is illegally hooking kids on Instagram, experts said, with everything from aggressive litigation to a global settlement on the table.
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April 27, 2026
There is no world where discovery in Texas' lawsuit against TikTok can be completed in the next six weeks, the social media behemoth has told a Texas state court, saying that "it is now beyond doubt that the assumptions underlying the current scheduling order are wrong."
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April 27, 2026
Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser has agreed not to enforce a new Centennial State law requiring "clear and conspicuous notice" of artificial intelligence use while state lawmakers complete rulemaking and contemplate potentially replacing the law, according to a notice filed in xAI's case challenging the measure.
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April 27, 2026
A California federal judge delivered on her earlier indication at a hearing that she would dismiss a proposed privacy class action against Meta Platforms Inc. and several food banks, saying visitors to food assistance websites failed to show their privacy rights were violated.
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April 27, 2026
Otterbourg PC Chairman Richard L. Stehl and his attorneys should be sanctioned for adding "salacious" and legally unnecessary allegations to a retooled complaint seeking $10 million against James Cretella, a former law partner accused of accessing data about his onetime boss before departing for another firm, Cretella has argued.
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April 27, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared split on a Fourth Amendment challenge to the constitutionality of geofence warrants, which compel technology companies to turn over users' location data to law enforcement, grappling with technical, legal and practical complexities.
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April 27, 2026
China's top economic planning body on Monday ordered the cancellation of Meta Platforms Inc.'s planned acquisition of Chinese artificial intelligence company Manus.
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April 27, 2026
A Fidelity unit has agreed to pay a $1.25 million fine to end Massachusetts' claims that a failure to enforce cybersecurity protocols led to a data breach affecting 77,000 brokerage customers, according to a consent order filed on Monday with the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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April 24, 2026
A California federal judge has trimmed a putative class action accusing South Korean internet conglomerate and search giant Naver Corp. and several affiliates of illegally collecting biometric data from users of a pair of messaging and photo-editing apps, finding the court lacked jurisdiction over Naver and other foreign defendants while allowing some privacy claims to proceed against the remaining companies.
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April 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on Tuesday with implications for U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, and decide whether the Ninth Circuit was right to reinstate an Alien Tort Statute suit alleging that Cisco Systems Inc. helped the Chinese government's allegedly unlawful crackdown on the Falun Gong religious movement.
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April 24, 2026
Hikvision doesn't have the standing to take the Federal Communications Commission to court over its decision to place modular transmitters on the so-called covered list, a list of equipment deemed to pose a national security risk, the agency told the D.C. Circuit.
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April 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its oral argument portion of the 2025 October term by hearing a panoply of disputes over the constitutionality of geofence warrants, the existence of aiding and abetting torture claims, and the rescission of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
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April 24, 2026
Bankers are pleased that the Federal Communications Commission is floating the idea of imposing "know your customer" rules on originating telecom providers and finding those that don't comply, since bank numbers are often among those most "spoofed" by bad actors.
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April 24, 2026
A 21-year-old founder of an artificial intelligence startup posed as a licensed real estate appraiser to gain access to a residential appraisal software company's data collection tool and share it with his own employees, who duplicated aspects of the product, the software company has alleged in a California federal court.
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April 24, 2026
Pennsylvania's procedures for requesting copies of its voter rolls comply with the National Voter Registration Act, but so does a state rule preventing a national group from publishing that information on the internet in its hunt for voter fraud, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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April 24, 2026
A group of Cigna health plan participants who claimed the company failed to protect their private health information when it tracked their website activities told a Pennsylvania federal judge that the insurance giant should not be allowed to dodge new allegations that their HIPAA rights were violated.