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Google, YouTube Settle Kids' Data Suit With $30M Payout

By Allison Grande

Google LLC and its subsidiary YouTube will pay $30 million to resolve a long-running proposed class action accusing them of illegally collecting children's data to generate targeted advertising, according to documents filed in California federal court Monday. 

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Chicago Suburb Sued Over Medical History Probes

By Celeste Bott

The city of Evanston, Illinois, was hit with a state court lawsuit by job applicants who allege its questions about their family medical histories violated an Illinois law barring employers from asking about genetic information and using it to make employment decisions.

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NJ Panel Upholds Use Of Phone Passcode Seen By Police

By Elizabeth Daley

A man sentenced to 60 years in prison after kidnapping and sexually assaulting another man can be resentenced due to recent precedent concerning persistent offenders, but can't suppress evidence gained after police saw his cellphone passcode and used it to read his texts, a New Jersey appellate panel ruled Tuesday.

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9th Circ. Revives App's Arbitration Bid In Video Privacy Row

By Allison Grande

The Ninth Circuit has given Christian-based streaming service Yippee Entertainment Inc. another chance to force arbitration of claims that it illegally shared subscribers' video viewing information, after finding that the lower court erred in concluding that consumers weren't given adequate notice of the arbitration agreement.

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Airbnb Guests Oppose Arbitration Of Secret Recording Claims

By Jonathan Capriel

Six women who claim they were secretly filmed during an "all-girls stay" at a Palm Springs, California, Airbnb are opposing the company's bid to push their claims into arbitration, telling a state court that federal law explicitly prohibits anyone from forcing a sexual misconduct claim into arbitration.

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Google Should Pay Billions To App Users For Data, Jury Told

By Bonnie Eslinger

Google made billions of dollars collecting data from the cellphones of tens of millions of Americans despite their opting out of tracking, a lawyer for consumers in a class action told a California federal jury Tuesday, while Google countered that the data collected after the privacy setting was activated isn't tied to users' identity.

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OAN Owner Looks To Depose UMich Expert In Dominion Case

By Carolyn Muyskens

One America News Network's owner has asked the Sixth Circuit to force a University of Michigan cybersecurity expert to testify in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case over the network's coverage of the 2020 presidential election, saying a judge erred when he blocked the deposition.

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FCC Democrat Poised To Sue If Trump Seeks Her Removal

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's lone Democratic member said this week it would be unlawful for President Donald Trump to attempt to remove her from office and that she's willing to go to court if he tries.

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FCC Expected To Move Soon On Media Ownership Regs

By Christopher Cole

Republican leaders on the Federal Communications Commission said the agency is likely to soon float rules that would revamp media ownership restrictions.

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Mich. AG Fights Roku's Bid To Dismiss Data Privacy Claims

By Carolyn Muyskens

Michigan's attorney general told a federal judge she has standing to sue Roku Inc. on behalf of the state's residents and children because of the state's interest in combating data privacy violations, urging the court to reject the streaming platform's bid to shake video and personal privacy claims. 

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Another Suit Says Roblox Didn't Protect Child From Predator

By Joyce Hanson

The mother of a 10-year-old girl has hit Roblox Corp. with a lawsuit joining the many that accuse the popular gaming platform of putting children in danger, claiming that a man the girl met on the company's app groomed her until she shared sexually explicit images of herself with him.

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$150K Settlement Approved In Cohen Cleary Data Breach

By Matt Perez

A federal judge in Massachusetts filed an order last week granting final approval of a $150,000 settlement between law firm Cohen Cleary PC and a class of more than 12,000 former clients who sought relief after a 2022 cyberattack on the firm's computer systems.

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Credit Union Seeks Coverage For ITM Hack, Fraud Schemes

By Jennifer Mandato

An insurer owes nearly $715,000 for two separate losses a credit union incurred after a crime ring hacked a number of its interactive teller machines and a counterfeit check fraud scheme affected multiple account holders, the credit union said in a lawsuit removed to Delaware federal court.

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Nurses Say They Were Underpaid, Overworked At Hospital

By Emily Brill

A Chicagoland hospital network pressured its nurses to work late and through their breaks without pay because it was so understaffed, a group of current and former nurses claimed in Illinois federal court, looking to recoup the pay they say they lost through a wage and hour lawsuit.

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Pa. Justices OK Lower Court's Test For When Posts Are Public

By Matthew Santoni

A split Pennsylvania Supreme Court endorsed a lower court's proposed test for whether an elected official's personal social media messages are subject to the state's open records law, with the majority agreeing the posts should only be considered public if they have the "trappings" of a government record.

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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI

After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.

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Trump's 'Abnormal' Use Of FCA Could Get Tricky In Court

By Phillip Bantz

The Trump administration is wielding the False Claims Act in unusually narrow ways to drive policies on social and cultural issues — including gender-affirming care and diversity, equity and inclusion programs — but the government's potential theories of liability under the federal law remain largely untested and might not hold up in court, experts say.

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NY US Atty Hit With Complaint For Alleged Media Retaliation

By Madison Arnold

A collection of nonprofit organizations that support press freedoms has called for an ethics investigation of acting U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III of the Northern District of New York, saying he may have "unconstitutionally retaliated" against a newspaper that reported on him.

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5th Circ. Says NLRB Structure Likely Unconstitutional

By Tim Ryan

The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld injunctions barring the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting unfair labor practice cases against SpaceX and two other companies, saying the removal protections that federal labor law gives board members and agency judges likely violate the U.S. Constitution.

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Bad Citations Aren't Always Sanctionable, Wash. Atty Argues

By Emily Sawicki

An attorney in Washington state vowed on Tuesday to appeal harsh sanctions an Arizona federal judge meted out Thursday over fake and misleading citations she included in an opening brief, releasing a statement arguing that the court's order "treats the mere existence of AI-hallucinated citations as an automatic violation" but "that is not what Rule 11 requires."

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Ex-Copyright Chief Says Trump Overstepped Role In Firing Her

By Ivan Moreno

The fired leader of the U.S. Copyright Office urged the D.C. Circuit to reject the Trump administration's arguments that her dismissal was lawful, asking the appeals court on Tuesday to return her to her job before Congress returns from recess Sept. 2.

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Family Alleging Firm's Girardi Conflict Denied Partial Win

By Craig Clough

A Los Angeles judge Tuesday denied a family's motion seeking judgment on declaratory relief claims in a $1.8 million malpractice lawsuit against a firm that represented it in recovering millions lost in Girardi Keese's embezzlement scandal, saying disputed facts remain in the "unusual" case.

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Ex-Judge Gets Law License Back After Bribery Suspension

By James Boyle

A former Philadelphia Municipal Court judge can practice law in Pennsylvania again following a split state Supreme Court decision to reinstate his license that had been suspended after he admitted to accepting $90,000 to drop out of a congressional election.

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Ex-Holland & Knight Atty Wants Another Depo From Ex-Wife

By Hailey Konnath

A former Holland & Knight LLP partner battling Pennsylvania personal injury firm Fritz & Bianculli LLC in litigation stemming from an affair and his messy divorce has pushed for his ex-wife to sit for another deposition, arguing that she wrongly refused to answer relevant questions when she was first deposed.

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DOJ Asks Full 4th Circ. To Rehear Judges' Speech Dispute

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Justice petitioned the full Fourth Circuit to rehear a June panel decision reviving a free speech suit from an immigration judges union, saying it flouts U.S. Supreme Court precedent and implements a novel legal requirement.

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