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March 31, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission wants to block the importation of telecommunications gear that was put on its so-called covered list — a list of equipment the agency has deemed poses national security risks — before it had passed rules banning the authorization of such equipment.
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March 31, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Monday refused Apple's bid to reconsider part of a panel decision in Epic Games Inc.'s favor that largely affirmed an injunction blocking Apple from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its payment systems, declining to clarify what fees Apple can charge.
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March 31, 2026
The 2016 outcome of a robocall blocker's lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois bars the same company from pursuing similar claims that it filed against Synchrony Financial in Connecticut, a federal judge has ruled in tossing the latest case for good.
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March 31, 2026
A California federal judge has ordered that a case brought by Reddit Inc. claiming Anthropic PBC improperly gathered user content to train its large language models be sent back to state court, finding that each of Reddit's allegations have extra elements that defeat federal preemption.
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March 31, 2026
The Trump administration told a D.C. federal court that an app maker cannot support his claims that the administration coerced Apple to remove an app letting users report sightings of immigration enforcement authorities, noting Apple had independent authority to do so.
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March 30, 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered state agencies to strengthen guardrails for all contracts connected to generative AI tools, highlighting what he sees as risks to free speech, voting rights and mass surveillance, and at the same time encouraging statewide adoption of safe forms of the technology.
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March 30, 2026
A pair of U.S. district judges Monday implored litigants to take more time to walk those deciding their disputes through the complex data privacy, artificial intelligence and other technological issues underpinning claims, cautioning that acting otherwise is likely to result in bored juries and discarded legal briefs.
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March 30, 2026
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. urged a California federal judge to order a dozen states and Washington, D.C., to take corrective measures after they publicly filed thousands of pages of confidential documents related to the company's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc.
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March 30, 2026
While the Federal Trade Commission isn't interested in "telling companies how to run their businesses," the agency will continue to police online hazards facing children and adults, including those that may be caused by the way that websites are designed, and could impose more "extreme" remedies when necessary, Republican Commissioner Mark Meador said Monday.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of a former Chicago Transit Authority employee whose retaliation lawsuit was dismissed by the Seventh Circuit as a sanction for spoiling evidence.
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March 30, 2026
Match and its dating platform subsidiary OkCupid settled a civil suit Monday by the Federal Trade Commission alleging they shared millions of users' photos and other data with an artificial intelligence company specializing in facial recognition technology, known as Clarifai Inc., without giving users the chance to opt out.
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March 30, 2026
A panel of the Fifth Circuit wanted counsel for a group of passengers who sued cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Inc. after their flights were delayed or canceled during a crippling IT outage to explain who else could get sued under their liability theory, weighing Monday whether the Airline Deregulation Act bars the claims.
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March 30, 2026
The Sixth Circuit won't reverse Financial Industry Regulatory Authority sanctions against the owner of a consulting company who argued he'd been unfairly ruled against by a self-regulatory organization he never joined, though the judges stopped short of weighing the petitioner's constitutional challenges to the FINRA findings.
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March 30, 2026
A Maryland man was charged with hacking cryptocurrency exchange Uranium Finance and taking $53 million, and using the money to buy rare Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering trading cards, as well as a piece of the Wright brothers' original plane that Neil Armstrong took to the moon.
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March 30, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board rightly found a Sanofi patent application shouldn't be rejected for obviousness-type double patenting, as it doesn't improperly extend patent life, the French drugmaker and its allies have told U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared sharply skeptical that a former Twitter employee convicted of emailing a falsified document to FBI agents from his Seattle home could be prosecuted in San Francisco, with several justices questioning the federal government's justification for bringing the case where none of the charged conduct occurred.
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March 30, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Friday rejected an insurer's bid for summary judgment in a suit seeking coverage for a $20 million settlement of biometric privacy claims, saying disputes remain over whether it waived an exclusion by failing to raise it in earlier litigation or if the company's change in strategy prejudiced the plaintiffs enough to bar its application.
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March 30, 2026
An ex-Yale student suing the university and a sexual assault accuser engaged in "repeated and escalating" litigation misconduct including violating anonymity orders and withholding key information from numerous courts, warranting dismissal as a punishment, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled in tossing the case.
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March 30, 2026
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP sought dismissal of a consolidated data breach action in New York federal court Friday due to the plaintiffs' alleged lack of relationship with the firm and inability to identify any cognizable damages.
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March 30, 2026
A pair of Florida-based data-broker companies were hit with a proposed class action in Colorado state court, alleging they violated a state telemarketing privacy law by listing thousands of Colorado residents' cellphone numbers in their commercial people-search directories without consent.
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March 30, 2026
A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary urged a New Jersey federal court to order a former associate director to submit to a court-supervised forensic inspection of any device or account in which she could have stored confidential information it claims she downloaded in order to start her own competing company.
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March 27, 2026
The courts are emerging as the forum to hold social media giants accountable for their algorithms now that two multimillion-dollar jury verdicts determined the platforms are harming the mental health of young people, after years of being unchecked by Congress.
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March 27, 2026
As Congress pushes to limit regulation of artificial intelligence systems and struggles to put guardrails on companies' handling of personal data, states continue to step up, with a key jurisdiction making moves to update its landmark AI protections and the state data privacy law patchwork expanding for the first time in nearly two years.
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March 27, 2026
A Georgia federal judge appeared skeptical Friday of Fulton County's efforts to recover hundreds of boxes of 2020 election ballots that were seized by the FBI in a January raid on a county warehouse, signaling he wasn't sure whether the government had shown "callous disregard" for the Constitution.
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March 27, 2026
A California federal judge on Thursday approved Google's nonmonetary deal resolving allegations it sells consumers' personal data in fast-paced digital ad auctions without their consent, but slashed class counsel's $128 million fee request to $21.8 million due to their "speculative" settlement-value estimates, "limited success" and numerous billing "errors and inefficiencies."