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State Social Media Laws Targeted At Teens Face Opposition

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A few months ago, we highlighted the many pending and enacted state-level social media laws targeting minors’ use of social media. Since then, political and industry groups have begun to push back, calling into question...more

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Utah Legislature Repeals and Replaces Utah Social Media Regulation Act

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Keypoint: The Utah legislature repealed and replaced the Utah Social Media Act in response to a lawsuit challenging the law on constitutional grounds. Prior to closing in early March, the Utah legislature passed two bills...more

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Court Prohibits Ohio’s AG From Enforcing Social Media Parental Notification Act

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A court in the Southern District of Ohio has issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Social Media Parental Notification Act, an Ohio law that would require social media platforms to obtain parental consent...more

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Democratic AGs Argue for Moderation Communication Between Government and Social Media Companies

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A group of 23 Democratic AGs filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse a Fifth Circuit decision upholding a preliminary injunction barring communication between social-media platforms and federal...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Stays Preliminary Injunction Entered Against Certain Federal Officials and Agencies

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​​​​​​​On May 5, 2022, plaintiffs – the States of Missouri and Louisiana as well as various private parties – filed suit against the President and various federal agencies and officials, alleging that popular social media...more

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Montana AG Mounts Defense of State’s TikTok Ban

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Montana AG Austin Knudsen is defending a new Montana law which prohibits the social media platform TikTok from operating in the state and prohibits mobile application stores from making TikTok available for download starting...more

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Fifth Circuit Pauses Injunction Restricting Communications Between the Government and Social Media Companies Over Content Removal

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On July 14, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an administrative stay of an order that would prohibit certain federal officials and agencies from communicating with social media companies on content...more

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Social media users denied preliminary injunction in privacy suit

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On December 22, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction in a privacy suit. According to the order, the plaintiffs alleged that the social media...more

Saiber LLC

The NetChoice LLC Texas Case: Stay by Fifth Circuit Vacated by the Supreme Court

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The December 16, 2021 post “Texas Enjoined from Enforcing Law Targeting Social Media Platforms” reported how on December 1, 2021 a federal court in Texas enjoined enforcement of a law which would have limited a large number...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Second Circuit Revives ‘Uniqueness’ as Basis for Enforcing Non-Compete

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Breathing new life into “uniqueness” (of an employee’s services) as a legitimate business interest supporting enforcement of non-competition covenants under New York law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...more

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#Blessed? Preliminary Injunction Related to Social Media Accounts Vacated

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Addressing a dispute between a bridal designer and her former employer regarding the use of the designer’s name and control of various social media accounts, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the...more

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Florida Enjoined from Enforcing Law Targeting Some Social Media Platforms

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Earlier this year, Florida enacted Senate Bill 7072 - The Stop Social Media Censorship Act - which imposed requirements and prohibitions on some, but not all, social media platforms relating to the speech hosted on their...more

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Federal Court Blocks Florida Law Aimed at Social Media Giants

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A federal judge recently blocked a Florida law that would have penalized social media companies for removing, or refusing to publish, posts by politicians. Florida legislators approved the legislation after Facebook, Twitter...more

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Industry Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Florida Social Media Law

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On May 24, 2021, Florida’s governor signed into law legislation prohibiting social media companies from blocking political candidates seeking to use those companies’ websites to communicate with the sites’ users. Almost...more

Cozen O'Connor

41-State Data Breach Settlement | Additional CCPA Regulations | Suit Over Patient Discharge Notice

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Antitrust- Attorneys General Testify in House Hearing on Big Tech and Competition- •On March 18, 2021, Colorado AG Phil Weiser and Nebraska AG Doug Peterson testified before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial,...more

Akerman LLP - Marks, Works & Secrets

What’s in a Name: SDNY Grants Preliminary Injunction Enforcing Contractual Bar Against Designer’s Use of Her Own Name

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In a fifty-seven-page memorandum opinion and order, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a fashion brand its motion for a preliminary injunction preventing its lead designer from...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Another Court Loss for President’s TikTok Ban, Questions Loom About the Future

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On December 7, 2020, Judge Carl Nichols of the D.C. District Court issued a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from enforcing a ban on the social media site TikTok. The opinion from the D.C. District Court...more

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The Courts Step In To Protect TikTok From The Trump Administration

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In a dramatic Sunday morning hearing (conducted remotely via telephone), lawyers for TikTok and the Trump Administration battled over whether the government’s order banning TikTok from the Apple and Google app stores would...more

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D.C. District Court Judge Blocks Commerce’s TikTok Ban

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A federal judge from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted TikTok’s motion for preliminary injunction, resulting in a nationwide temporary suspension of an order from the U.S. Department of Commerce...more

Perkins Coie

TikTok and WeChat—New Developments Delay Prohibitions

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Sunday, September 20, 2020, was intended to be the day on which prohibitions would go into effect on ByteDance Ltd. (ByteDance) and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Tencent) and their subsidiaries—makers of the TikTok and WeChat apps,...more

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Executive Orders on Pause: WeChat and TikTok Bans Temporarily Suspended

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On Saturday, two actions put a stop, at least temporarily, to the U.S. shutdown of the popular social media apps WeChat and TikTok. WeChat - On September 19, 2020, a California Federal Magistrate Judge issued a...more

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WeChat and TikTok Sanctions Not to Come Into Effect Sept. 20

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Late last week, a Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order granting a motion for a nationwide preliminary injunction forbidding implementation of sanctions against...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.16.2019 | Top Story: Boeing Execs Mull Halting 737 Max Production as FAA Clearance Stalls

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Boeing’s 737 MAX faces an uncertain future. Boeing is considering at least a temporary halt to its 737 Max production “as regulatory clearance for the grounded jet’s return looks increasingly likely to slip beyond January...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Circuit Court Denies LinkedIn’s Petition for En Banc Review of hiQ Scraping Decision

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Last month, LinkedIn Corp. (“LinkedIn”) filed a petition for rehearing en banc of the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., No. 17-16783 (9th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019). The crucial question...more

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Facebook Suspends Apps That Scrape Data From Its Platform Following Cambridge Analytica Scandal

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Facebook announced on September, 20th, that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps from interoperating with the Facebook platform alleging misuse of Facebook members’ personal data. This is a continuation of the Cambridge...more

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