A federal court granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday blocking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using certain states' Medicaid data for immigration enforcement purposes. The block from the U.S. District Court for Northern California comes after a multistate coalition, led by California, filed a lawsuit against HHS for providing individuals' health data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency (see 2507010060).
A federal court's dismissal of a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) case claiming a TikTok tool was a "trap and trace device" shows plaintiffs' claims must match the statute's definitions exactly, or they risk having the case tossed before getting "to the starting gate," Troutman Amin's Keerti Jaya said in a blog post Monday.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a district court decision to block the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive data at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Education Department. A consumer advocate panned the decision.
Texas’ claims that an Allstate subsidiary collected and shared Texans' driving data with the insurer are based on assumptions, not facts or evidence, the subsidiary, Arity 875, said in an appeals court brief August 4. As such, Arity, a data analytics company, urged the Texas 15th Court of Appeals to drop it from a lawsuit.
The 'ordinary person' standard is a commonsense approach to Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) cases that is gaining support from several U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, said Troutman Pepper lawyers in a Monday blog post. Most recently, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' denial of an en banc review of its May 2025 ruling in Solomon v. Flipps Media bolstered the approach.
Meta faces a claim that it operates as a pen register device, prohibited under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), after a federal court declined to drop the claim from a pixel tax-filing case Wednesday.
Bitcoin Depot failed to adequately protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 26,000 individuals, which was then exposed in a data breach, a class-action complaint alleged Friday in the U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia. Lead plaintiff Quincey Hall's lawsuit alleges negligence, invasion of privacy, breach of implied contract and violations of the Georgia Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, among other claims.
The U.S. Supreme Court's June decision that upheld a Texas law requiring age verification for access to porn sites (see 2506270041) could have wide implications for future legislation at the federal and state levels, said privacy lawyers.
Several court decisions in California have benefited the plaintiffs as they pursue website tracker litigation, according to two recent attorney blogs.
Illinois renewed its request for a federal court to dismiss a DOJ workplace privacy suit Monday. The state argued that DOJ didn't prove how federal law preempts elements of the state's Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act (Privacy Act).