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."
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.