A coalition of child advocacy groups asked a federal court Wednesday for permission to submit an amicus brief supporting the Texas attorney general in a case against the state’s app store age-verification law.
A California court Wednesday dropped a case against Tesla that sought to prove the carmaker unlawfully used tracking technologies on its website. In a brief, text-only ruling, the U.S. District Court for Central California sided with Tesla, which had argued that case 5:25-cv-01982 be dismissed because of the plaintiff's unpersuasive arguments (see 2512050017).
The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Rhode Island on Tuesday submitted a motion to intervene in DOJ's challenge against the state for failing to submit sensitive voter data to the federal government. The organizations sought to add themselves as defendants in the case.
DOJ argued Friday that a case against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for improperly accessing sensitive information at the Office of Personnel Management is no longer relevant and should be dropped.
In the latest volley of court documents in a case challenging a Florida law that would ban kids younger than 13 from having social media accounts, the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) slammed the state AG for opposing its motion to expedite the proceedings. Months earlier, Florida urged that the case be expedited. CCIA made a similar motion to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Dec. 3 (see 2512030047).
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision Monday when it ruled that movie theaters are not video tape service providers under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), negating VPPA litigation brought against them.
Oral argument in NetChoice v. Yost (docket 25-3371) has been scheduled for 9 a.m. ET on Feb. 4, at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Plaintiffs in a class action against Pepsi who said it violated consumer privacy by placing cookies on browsers of users who had rejected them voluntarily dismissed the suit without prejudice Thursday. They gave no reason why they dropped the case, which was filed under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA).
Tesla asked a federal court Thursday to drop a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) class action claiming the carmaker unlawfully used tracking technologies on its website, calling the plaintiff’s allegations “unpersuasive.”
The U.S. Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split over whether the FCC properly handed down fines against AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile for violating FCC data rules, AT&T said Friday in a filing at the court. Verizon challenged at SCOTUS a September decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upholding a $46.9 million fine (see 2511170035). In August, the D.C. Circuit upheld a similar fine against T-Mobile (see 2508150044), while the 5th Circuit earlier rejected one imposed on AT&T (see 2504180001).