NetChoice lacks standing to bring a suit against Maryland's Age-Appropriate Design Code (MAADC) Act and it hasn't sufficiently pleaded its facial claims, Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) said in a court document Friday. The AG again requested that a federal court dismiss the trade association's suit, which argues that the kids code law is unconstitutional.
A coalition of cities and other organizations on Friday appealed a June decision that vacated most of a rule that reduced the instances where protected health information can be used or disclosed to investigate a person who sought lawful reproductive health care.
The claim that Roblox would intentionally put its users "at risk of exploitation is categorically untrue," the company said in a statement Friday in response to a lawsuit from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) (see 2508140051).
Law firm Kelley Drye failed to properly train employees on cybersecurity or maintain reasonable security safeguards, which allowed a data breach impacting thousands of customers' personal information to be leaked, a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York state court alleged. Additionally, plaintiff Ratna Kanhai claims Kelley Drye didn't report the breach promptly, and the eventual notification was intentionally confusing.
The NBA doubled down Friday on its stance that a U.S. Supreme Court review of Salazar v. NBA is needed to settle differences between circuit courts concerning the application of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), which was intended to protect the privacy of consumers who rented videos (see 2503190047).
A federal judge on Thursday allowed a group of parents to file an appeal instead of an amended complaint in a previously dismissed child privacy case against an education technology platform. The court released a final judgment one day after the plaintiffs made the request at the U.S. District Court for Central California.
Since an appeals court believes the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and others are unlikely to succeed on the merits of their privacy case that challenges the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive government data, the court overturned a district court's ruling that let AFT temporarily block DOGE.
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Mississippi age-verification law to stand Thursday, denying NetChoice's emergency application that would have blocked the measure.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's dismissal of a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case Tuesday means there is a circuit split on the definition of consumer under the federal statute, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court will likely break that split, said plaintiff Michael Salazar in a supplemental brief to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. Because of this, Salazar said the high court should deny the NBA's petition in Salazar v. NBA to review a decision from the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals that affirmed Salazar but that the basketball league said unfairly expanded the scope of the 1988 VPPA (see 2503190047).
Meta asked a federal court Monday to reverse the verdict or, alternatively, hold a new trial in a case involving allegations that the company shared sensitive health information with third parties without user consent. The social media platform argued "the evidence at trial does not fit plaintiffs’ legal claim."