Flo Users Get Class Cert. In Google, Meta Data-Sharing Suit

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has granted class status to users of the menstrual cycle tracking app developed by Flo Health Inc. in a suit accusing the company of unlawfully sharing their personal health information with Google and Meta, finding that the defendants' opposition to this move lacked clarity and support.

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TikTok's Bid To Get NY Docs From AG Sunk By New State Law

By Frank G. Runyeon

A New York state judge on Tuesday denied TikTok's bid to force the New York attorney general to turn over agency documents related to claims the app harms children's mental health, relying on an amendment tucked into the state's budget that was signed into law this month.

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High Court Precedent Blocks FTC Commish Firings, Judge Told

By Matthew Perlman

A pair of recently fired Federal Trade Commission members sparred with the administration in D.C. federal court on Tuesday, with the judge raising questions about which Supreme Court precedent really holds in this dispute.

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State AGs Back NJ Judicial Privacy Law At 3rd Circ.

By Jack Karp

Most states' attorneys general, along with law enforcement organizations and a data privacy group, have encouraged the Third Circuit to uphold a New Jersey judicial privacy measure, saying states have sovereignty to enact such laws in a time of increased threats against judges.

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Meta Says Too Late For 'Dramatic Shift' In Antitrust Argument

By Craig Clough

Consumers who claim Meta monopolized the social media advertising market are attempting to make a late "dramatic shift" from their years-long argument that all of its users should have been paid a "made-up figure" of $5 a month for their data, the company told a California federal court Monday.

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Apple Can't Get Quick Pause Of App Store Order At 9th Circ.

By Dorothy Atkins

The Ninth Circuit agreed Monday to expedite briefing in Apple's appeal challenging a lower court's new injunction mandating certain App Store policy changes, but the panel declined to rule on Apple's emergency request to pause the injunction as Apple and Epic Games brief the hotly contested dispute.

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FCC Warned To Not Overreach In Undersea Cable Rules

By Christopher Cole

Network providers cautioned the Federal Communications Commission to stick to its legal authority when crafting new rules to beef up the security of undersea telecom cables, saying the FCC can't regulate beyond cable owners and operators under existing law.

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Attys For Alleged Fox Hacker 'Deeply Regret' Fake AI Citations

By Matt Perez

Two attorneys apologized to a Florida federal judge on Monday for filing a motion to dismiss charges against their client — alleged Fox News video hacker Timothy Burke — that contained fake legal citations generated by artificial intelligence.

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19-Year-Old Mass. Student Admits To PowerSchool Hacking

By Hailey Konnath

A 19-year-old student at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has pled guilty to hacking into the networks of two companies, including education software and cloud storage company PowerSchool Group LLC, and extorting them for ransoms, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

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Tech Co. AppLovin's Brass Face 'Shadow Downloads' Claims

By Emilie Ruscoe

Executives and directors of technology company AppLovin face a shareholder derivative suit alleging they breached their fiduciary duties after the company allegedly inflated its download numbers, a key performance metric, by means of manipulative practices.

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Meta Asks To Toss Claim That Illegal Tool Scraped Tax Info

By Anna Scott Farrell

Meta's tracking tool did not violate state privacy law, the company argued, urging a California federal court to toss a claim calling the tool an unauthorized recording device that collected sensitive information from tax filing websites H&R Block, TaxAct and Tax Slayer.

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ZoomInfo Accused Of Illegally Selling Cellphone Numbers

By Jared Foretek

ZoomInfo is facing allegations that it violates Colorado law by selling individuals' cellphone numbers without their consent, in a proposed class action that was moved to Washington federal court last week.

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Medical Supply Co. Faces Ga. Suit Over Unwanted Texts

By Chart Riggall

A Florida-based medical supply company has been hit with a proposed Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action in Georgia federal court by a man who says he received several promotional text messages from the company after he added himself to the National Do Not Call Registry.

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Brief

Legal Ed Platforms Settle Attorney's Data Harvesting Suit

By Chart Riggall

Two platforms for continuing legal education content have settled a proposed class action from a Seattle attorney which alleged that the companies violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by using Meta's Pixel tracking software on their sites, the parties said Monday.

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National Security Pro Joins Arnold & Porter White Collar Team

By Tracey Read

A former deputy assistant attorney general has left the U.S. Department of Justice to become a partner in Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's white collar defense and investigations and national security practices in New York, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Expect Eyes On Electronic Devices At US Entry Points

Electronic device searches are becoming common at U.S. border inspections, making it imperative for companies to familiarize themselves with what's allowed, and mandate specific precautions for employees to protect their privacy and sensitive information during international travel, say attorneys at Seyfarth.

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How NY's FAIR Act Mirrors CFPB State Recommendations

New York's proposed FAIR Business Practices Act, which targets predatory lending and junk fees, reflects the Rohit Chopra-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recommendations to states in a number of ways, including by defining "abusive" conduct and adding a new right to file class actions, says Christian Hancock at Bradley Arant.

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The Alien Enemies Act Cases: A Roundup

By Britain Eakin

Litigation over President Donald Trump’s March 14 proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act has moved at breakneck speed, spurring two U.S. Supreme Court decisions already while at least five different districts weigh his authority to invoke the wartime law. Here, Law360 catches you up on major developments in the litigation.

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Injunction On Trump Order Limited To Perkins, Judge Clarifies

By Dorothy Atkins

A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday clarified the scope of her injunction blocking President Donald Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie LLP, explaining that her ruling prohibits the president from directing government agencies to investigate only Perkins Coie's employment practices and not the other BigLaw firms.

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'Not A Denny's': 5th Circ. Judge Chides High Court Stopwatch

By Lauren Berg

The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday expedited a case brought by Venezuelans who are accused of being gang members and who are challenging the use of a 1798 wartime law to deport them to an El Salvador prison, with one judge chastising the U.S. Supreme Court's majority for allowing the appeal to move forward.

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SEC Chair Says Staff Exits Have Left Holes In Agency

By Jessica Corso

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins told Congress Tuesday that the agency has lost hundreds of employees in recent months due to voluntary buyouts and early retirement incentives, and that some now-missing expertise will need to be replaced. 

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Trump Case May Bolster Wis. Judge's Pitch For Immunity

By Jack Karp

The Wisconsin judge accused of obstructing federal immigration authorities' arrest of an unauthorized migrant in her courtroom has a strong argument that judicial immunity protects her after the U.S. Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling, some experts say, while others say judicial immunity does not extend to criminal prosecutions.

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Analysis

CFPB's Guidance Purge May Have Limited Impact For Industry

By Jon Hill

The Trump administration's recent culling of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau guidance may help advance the agency's pivot to lighter-touch regulation, but consumer advocates and even some financial services attorneys say the rescinded policies could still shape litigation and leave companies guessing about the agency's current views.

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Insurers Say Legal Malpractice Costs Keep Outpacing Inflation

By Emily Sawicki

The frequency at which major law firms faced malpractice claims held relatively steady in 2024, but payouts on claims continued to boom at a rate outpacing general inflation, according to this year's legal professional liability insurance survey, with nearly half of insurers surveyed reporting having paid at least one claim over $150 million.

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Amazon, Apple Get Atty Fees Over Dropped Antitrust Plaintiff

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Washington federal judge on Tuesday ordered an ousted lead plaintiff's counsel in a proposed antitrust class action against Amazon and Apple to pay a combined $223,000 in attorney fees to the defendants after finding last month that the lawyers had failed to tell the court that their client had abandoned the case.

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GSA Official Gives Mea Culpa On 'Non-Core' Federal Property

By Courtney Bublé

A top official of the federal government's real estate overseer testified on Tuesday that the administration was a bit rash in publishing a list two months ago with more than 400 "non-core" government properties, including federal courthouses, that it was considering disposing of.

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DOJ Watchdog Asked To Probe AG's Trump Media Stock Sales

By Craig Clough

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday urged the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general to investigate Attorney General Pam Bondi's sale of millions of dollars' worth of shares in Trump Media just ahead of the stock market plunging.

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Dem Lawmakers Reintroduce Supreme Court Ethics Bill

By Lauren Berg

Two Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday reintroduced bills in the House and Senate that would require the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a binding ethics code and create new recusal and disclosure standards for the nine justices.

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