Illinois asked a federal court Monday to dismiss a DOJ workplace privacy suit, arguing that the federal government failed to state a claim, and that federal immigration law does not preempt state privacy law. In May, the DOJ sued Illinois over a workplace privacy law that allegedly disrupts federal immigration authority (see 2505050065).
Affirming a circuit court's earlier ruling, an Illinois appellate court Tuesday certified class for railway workers who want to file a class-action suit claiming violations of the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Plaintiffs in case 1-24-1961 allege that railway industry service provider ITS Technologies' use of employee biometric information for time clocks violates the state statute.
A federal judge Wednesday denied Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's request for a stay of an injunction blocking a social media age-verification law. Fitch (R) asked for the injunction to be lifted while an appeal of case 24-00170 was pending at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2506200009).
Multi Media asked a federal court on Monday to drop a suit against the porn site, claiming the plaintiff failed to state a claim. Multi Media was one of four adult websites sued in the U.S. District Court for Kansas on May 12 for allegedly violating Kansas law by failing to implement age verification on their sites (see 2505130023).
Microsoft sought dismissal of a lawsuit alleging it improperly collects ad data in a way that mimics surveillance and can identify individual users. It argued Monday that plaintiffs in case 25-00570 -- individuals who used Microsoft to access various websites -- were attempting to "stretch common-law privacy and wiretap laws beyond their intended scope.”
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) on Monday asked for the dismissal of a lawsuit from NetChoice over the state’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (MAADC) Act, arguing that the trade association failed to state a claim and lacked jurisdiction.
A judge ordered the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to submit reports summarizing DOGE employees' access to sensitive data and how those staffers were trained, in order to prove that they didn't violate the Privacy Act.
A court dismissed a class action lawsuit against the NFL that alleged the league violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by employing the Meta-tracking pixel without user notice and consent. Issued Friday, the summary order ruled that an "ordinary person" could not determine a user's Facebook ID through the pixel's transmission.
Just one day after a coalition of nearly 20 states blessed TTAM Research Institute's agreement to acquire 23andMe and its data (see 2506180018), a court document filed Thursday shows nine more states joined in support. The group of now 27 states argued that genetic data isn't moving to a third party, since TTAM isn't strictly an outsider. TTAM's chief, Anne Wojcicki, founded 23andMe and is its former CEO.
Trade association NetChoice asked a court Friday to consider blocking a Utah age-verification law because of its similarity to a Florida measure that was preliminarily enjoined.