Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) asked the U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee on Monday again to deny NetChoice's preliminary injunction against a law requiring age verification to access social media accounts. Skrmetti argued the association's notice of supplemental authority concerns an unrelated data privacy law.
Current and former federal employees -- plaintiffs in a case alleging the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accessed sensitive personal data in violation of the 1974 Privacy Act -- filed a motion opposing the government's motion to dismiss Monday, alleging DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) failed to protect the security of records loaded with sensitive personal information.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman granted the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)'s motion for preliminary injunction Monday against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Education Department over the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive personal information at the departments. "No matter how important or urgent the President’s DOGE agenda may be, federal agencies must execute it in accordance with the law," she said. "That likely did not happen in this case."
A recent decision in a Florida privacy class action lawsuit shows how older wiretapping statutes could be applied to modern pixel tracking cases, Sidley Austin attorneys said Wednesday.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied the California Student Association’s motion for expedited discovery in a case about the Department of Government Efficiency's access to sensitive information. Judge Randolph Moss ruled the students failed to show expedited discovery is needed in case 25-00354.
Oral argument is scheduled for April 2 at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in NetChoice, LLC v. Bonta. Case 25-146 concerns California’s 2024 law (SB-976) that places restrictions on social media feeds for minors. These restrictions pose privacy and security risks, consumer privacy advocates say (see 2502070019).
The NBA filed a petition for a writ of certiorari on Friday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision from the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals that the basketball league said unfairly expanded the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) urged the U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee on Friday to deny NetChoice’s request for a preliminary injunction on a bill requiring age verification to access social media accounts following the decision in CCIA & NetChoice v. Uthmeier (see 2503170061). NetChoice responded Tuesday, asking the court to grant the preliminary injunction and enjoin the AG from enforcing HB-1891, as the ruling in the Uthmeier case “has no bearing here.”
New York and 19 other states Friday opposed the federal government's motion to partially dissolve a preliminary injunction in a case about Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) unauthorized access to sensitive information of Americans within the Treasury Department. The state AGs said the U.S. District Court for Southern New York should deny the motion because the defendants didn't fully address the court's concerns.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) asked a New York court to dismiss a complaint against them in a case alleging DOGE accessed sensitive personal data in violation of the 1974 Privacy Act. They allege the plaintiffs -- current and former federal employees -- lack subject matter jurisdiction and standing because they have not suffered a cognizable injury, nor have they sufficiently alleged causation or redressability.