NetChoice asked a federal court on Monday to consider blocking a Utah age-verification law due to its similarity to a Mississippi age-verification law that was preliminarily enjoined.
NetChoice filed an additional lawsuit against Arkansas late Friday as it attempted to block a pair of measures that would amend the state’s 2023 Social Media Safety Act, which a court ruled unconstitutional in late March following a NetChoice challenge (see 2504010044).
TikTok on Thursday appealed a New York Supreme Court judge's May ruling that allowed a suit from the Attorney General's office against the social media platform to continue (see 2505280056). TikTok appealed to the Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court, arguing the judge erred when it ruled the state's claims were not barred by the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Medical device company Abbott Laboratories was hit with a suit Tuesday when a former employee alleged genetic information he was required to submit as a condition of employment violated the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA).
In a reversal, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided a privacy case against Bloomingdale's, ruling that the retailer violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) when it tracked an online shopper's movement without consent. The decision indicates the court's favorable sentiment concerning protecting citizens' privacy and a shift in its approach to the wiretapping statute, Loeb & Loeb privacy lawyer Allison Cohen blogged.
Education technology vendor Instructure renewed its request that a district court dismiss a privacy suit against it, arguing that the plaintiffs failed to allege constitutional violations or invasion of privacy, and didn't prove violations of California law.
Illinois asked a federal court Monday to dismiss a DOJ workplace privacy suit, arguing that the federal government failed to state a claim, and that federal immigration law does not preempt state privacy law. In May, the DOJ sued Illinois over a workplace privacy law that allegedly disrupts federal immigration authority (see 2505050065).
Affirming a circuit court's earlier ruling, an Illinois appellate court Tuesday certified class for railway workers who want to file a class-action suit claiming violations of the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Plaintiffs in case 1-24-1961 allege that railway industry service provider ITS Technologies' use of employee biometric information for time clocks violates the state statute.
A federal judge Wednesday denied Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's request for a stay of an injunction blocking a social media age-verification law. Fitch (R) asked for the injunction to be lifted while an appeal of case 24-00170 was pending at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2506200009).
Multi Media asked a federal court on Monday to drop a suit against the porn site, claiming the plaintiff failed to state a claim. Multi Media was one of four adult websites sued in the U.S. District Court for Kansas on May 12 for allegedly violating Kansas law by failing to implement age verification on their sites (see 2505130023).