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Supreme Court to Decide Federal Government’s Ability to Engage with Social Media Companies in Content Moderation

After previously finding that the Biden White House and the FBI likely violated First Amendment free speech protections for some users of online social media platforms, the Fifth Circuit expanded its ruling to find that the...more

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News Organizations Win Release of Search Warrant Materials in Michael Cohen Cases

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Holding that search warrants issued under the Stored Communications Act are subject to a "common law presumption of access," the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has unsealed five search...more

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What if Apple and the FBI went to SCOTUS?

Davis Wright attorneys Robert Corn-Revere and Ronald London recently argued the privacy and First Amendment interests in a “moot Supreme Court” session at the Newseum that sought to approximate appellate review of the issues...more

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Apple Argues It Should Not Be Compelled to Write Software for the F.B.I.

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On February 16, 2016, Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym in the United States District Court for the Central District of California issued an order compelling Apple, Inc. to provide technical assistance to the F.B.I. so it can access...more

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iWon’t: Apple’s Face-Off with the DOJ

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In what is quickly becoming one of the closest-watched cases in the country, Apple is now at loggerheads with the Department of Justice and FBI over its refusal to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters....more

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Religious Institutions: September 2015

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Respondeat superior (literally, "let the master answer" in Latin) is a doctrine that applies when an employer or principal has the ability and authority to direct and control the pertinent acts of the employee. Put otherwise,...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

California Employment Law Notes - July 2015

Employee's Inability To Work For A Particular Supervisor Does Not Constitute A "Disability" - Higgins-Williams v. Sutter Med. Found., 237 Cal. App. 4th 78 (2015) - Michaelin Higgins-Williams worked as a clinical...more

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Cyber Law Tracker: FBI Prohibited From Issuing National Security Letters

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In a detailed opinion issued just this month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California struck down an oft-used FBI counterterrorism tool. Under the statute at issue, the FBI has issued tens of...more

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California District Court Finds National Security Letter Statute Unconstitutional

Last week, in In re National Security Letter, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California found unconstitutional two sections of the federal law allowing the FBI to issue “National Security...more

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