Bloomberg Law “Publicly owned companies must comply with a new set of regulatory deadlines during the next week that will require swift disclosure of malicious cyberattacks on their networks and the processes in place to prevent them from happening again. Entities subject to Securities and Exchange Commission authority will be Read more…
Bloomberg Law “Meta Platforms Inc. sued the US Federal Trade Commission claiming its in-house trials violate the Constitution and asked a court to immediately halt the agency’s bid to change a 2020 privacy settlement. The social networking giant filed the suit in Washington federal court seeking a halt to FTC proceedings related to Read more…
ABA Journal “The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis ruled Monday that private plaintiffs cannot sue for alleged violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans voting practices and procedures that deny or abridge the right to vote on the basis of race or Read more…
ABA Journal “The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether Texas landowners can sue the state under the takings clause for flooding caused by highway reconstruction even when a statute has not authorized lawsuits. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear four consolidated cases that argue the takings Read more…
ABA Journal “A West Virginia judge who led a warrantless search of a divorce litigant’s home is not entitled to judicial immunity because she engaged in a nonjudicial act, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Virginia, ruled against former family court Read more…
ABA Journal “In September 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Amazon, alleging the com- pany’s pricing policy for third- party merchants undermines competition and raises prices for consumers elsewhere. The suit, filed in state superior court, claims that in order to sell through Amazon, everyday sellers must sign agreements Read more…
The ABA Journal “Several legal novelists, including John Grisham and Scott Turow, are among 17 authors joining with the Authors Guild in a proposed class action lawsuit against the artificial intelligence program OpenAI. The Sept. 19 suit alleges that OpenAI used copyrighted work to train the chatbot ChatGPT, report Reuters, Read more…
The ABA Journal “Updated: The journey from conviction to exoneration can take decades, and the men and women who have been freed by the California Innocence Project collectively have spent more than 570 years in prison. Time is of the essence, yet the pro bono group has finite resources. So when Read more…
The Texas Tribune “The Supreme Court on Friday said it would wade into the future of free speech online and decide whether laws passed in Texas and Florida can restrict social media companies from removing certain political posts or accounts. The justices’ decision to take the landmark social media cases Read more…
ABA Journal “The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the rocket and spacecraft company founded by Elon Musk that is more commonly known as SpaceX, for discrimination against asylees and refugees in hiring. In its complaint, the Department of Justice alleges SpaceX consistently discouraged asylees Read more…