Days after winning a temporary injunction, NetChoice filed a brief Thursday in its appeal of the U.S. District Court for Northern California’s ruling that partially granted and partially denied the association’s motion for preliminary injunction on a law regulating addictive social media feeds for minors. While on Tuesday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) from enforcing the law while the appeal is pending (see 2501280074), the brief asked the 9th Circuit to “reverse those parts of the district court’s order denying a preliminary injunction” entirely.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition to review a case that claimed Facebook allegedly violated privacy and wiretapping laws by tracking users’ internet activity after they exited the social media platform. The ruling rejected questions proposed by an objector to the $90 million settlement in the case relating to the attorney fees and plaintiff service awards.
The California attorney general defended a law regulating addictive social media feeds for minors after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary motion for injunctive relief on it Tuesday (see 2501280074). The 9th Circuit on Wednesday scheduled oral argument for April 2 at 9 a.m. in Phoenix.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday granted a motion for injunctive relief on a California law regulating addictive social media feeds for minors.
New Jersey's Essex County Superior Court ordered a dismissal of the lawsuit against social media platform TikTok over kids safety and mental health concerns on Saturday. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin filed the complaint in October, alleging TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the state’s consumer protection law.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday that a plaintiff didn't allege actual injury in a class-action suit that claimed medical services group Christie Business Holdings negligently failed to protect its patients’ private personal data when an unknown third party gained unauthorized access to one of the business's emails.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathon Skrmetti (R) on Thursday opposed NetChoice’s renewed motion for a preliminary injunction on a law about kids’ access to social media. The AG said that the state has already responded to a motion for a preliminary injunction.
TikTok submitted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that New York state brought against it in a memorandum on Wednesday in a case alleging violation of consumer protection and product-liability laws. TikTok based its motion to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff’s claims are legally defective, and because New York failed “to state a cause of action,” according to the court document.
Education software company PowerSchool is working on resolving issues stemming from a December data breach that impacted millions of students and educators (see 2501220057), it said in an emailed statement Wednesday evening.
LinkedIn was sued Tuesday after allegedly disclosing Premium customers' private messages to third parties without their permission so it could train generative AI models.