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“Biometric Identifiers Must Identify”: The Ninth Circuit Clarifies the Scope of BIPA

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Zellmer v. Meta Platforms, Inc., on June 17, 2024, affirming dismissal of a putative class action filed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy...more

A&O Shearman

United States Supreme Court Grants Certiorari To Consider When Already-Materialized Risks Must Be Disclosed

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On June 10, 2024, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to review a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that partially reinstated a putative class action asserting claims under...more

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Northern District Of California Pares Claims In Putative Class Action Regarding Purchase Of Social Media Platform

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On December 11, 2023, Judge Charles Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California narrowed a putative class action asserting claims under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 against the...more

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Southern District Of New York Denies In Part And Grants In Part Motion To Dismiss Securities Class Action Against Social Media...

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On September 29, 2023, Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied in part and granted in part a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against...more

BakerHostetler

DSIR Deeper Dive: Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Are Trying to Assert a New Cause of Action Against Universities Based on an Old Law...

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As set forth in BakerHostetler’s 2023 Data Security Incident Report, privacy litigation is on the rise. Indeed, 2023 saw a nearly 100 percent increase from 2022 in the number of lawsuits filed in connection with data security...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Nothing Gets Between These Celebrities and Their Crypto... Except a Class Action Lawsuit (and the Feds)

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There is little in this world more valuable than fine art. Just ask Paul Allen, whose collection of paintings and sculptures recently fetched over $1.5 billion at auction, including $117 million for van Gogh’s “Verger avec...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Madison Cawthorn, and Their Damned, Dirty (and Bored) Apes

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It’s a common dilemma.  You’ve created ten thousand Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) of apes whose expressions answer in the affirmative the age-old (for billionaires, that is) question: can ennui follow you onto a yacht?  You...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Ninth Circuit Reaffirms Its Broad Definition of ATDS in TCPA ; Rules Government Debt Exception Unconstitutional

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A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Duguid v. Facebook, Inc., has reaffirmed the broad reading of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) definition of an automatic...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l April 2019 #3

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FSMA, Prop. 65 and Supply Chain Issues Among Subjects of Food Law Conferenc - In-house and outside counsel joined representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA) and...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update | April 2018#3

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Agriculture Committee Introduces 2018 Farm Bill - The U.S. House of Representatives’ Agriculture Committee has introduced the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (Farm Bill). ...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Facebook Loses Second Attempt to Dismiss Biometric Data Class Action

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Last week, a federal district judge in California shot down Facebook, Inc.’s second attempt to dismiss a putative class action alleging that its facial recognition software violates the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA)....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

California Court “Swipes Left” And Reverses Tinder’s Age-Based Price Discrimination Win

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In a class action lawsuit alleging that Tinder discriminated on the basis of age in violation of California state laws by charging consumers age 30 and over a higher price for Tinder Plus subscriptions, the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - July 2017 #2

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NAD Considers Grocery Store Claims, Including Jurisdiction Question - A grocery store chain should discontinue comparative pricing claims, the National Advertising Division recommended in a new decision, finding the...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Court Refuses to Dismiss Biometric Privacy Action over Facial Recognition Technology Used by Google Photos

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We’ve closely followed the numerous biometric privacy disputes and legislative developments surrounding the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which precludes the unauthorized collection and storing of some...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 9.26.16

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The Deal Professor weighs in on Yahoo’s announcement last week of the hack of roughly 500 million of its customers’ data and the specter of the MAC (material adverse change) that Verizon may choose to invoke to dance away...more

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Advertising Law - September 2016 #3

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Consumer Groups Urge FTC Action on Influencers - Consumer groups are urging the Federal Trade Commission to review comments by social media influencers for possible violations of the agency's guidance regarding...more

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Advertising Law - September 2016

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NAD Recommends Goop Lifestyle Blog Clean up Its Claims - Gwyneth Paltrow's agreement to discontinue her lifestyle blog Goop for a line of dietary supplements following an inquiry by the National Advertising Division...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Liability under CDA Section 230? Recent Lawsuit Tries to Flip the Script against Social Media Service

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Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, also known as the “Communications Decency Act of 1996” or “CDA” was signed into law in Feburary 1996. The goal of the CDA was to control the exposure of minors to indecent...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Trending in Social Media Law (Part 1): Biometric Privacy and Your Facebook Photos

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On May 5, 2016, a federal judge denied Facebook’s attempt to dismiss a consolidated putative class action alleging that Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” feature violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Transfer of healthcare website information to Facebook alleged to be a HIPAA violation

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Filed under the title of creative lawyering, a putative class action case has been filed against Facebook in federal court in Northern California alleging that health care providers and medical organizations have violated...more

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Facial Recognition Technology: Social Media and Beyond, an Emerging Concern

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This week, a major self-regulatory initiative intended to address privacy concerns associated with facial recognition technology hit a significant stumbling block. Nine consumer advocacy groups withdrew from the National...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Judge denies Gawker blog interns’ request to notify class action members through broad social media postings

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U.S. District Court Judge Alison J. Nathan denied a request by the Gawker group of interns, who filed a class action against Gawker for its unfair business practices, to disseminate notice of their class action through...more

BakerHostetler

John Lewis of BakerHostetler Discusses Use of Social Media in Gawker Class Action

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BakerHostetler attorney John Lewis joins Colin O'Keefe to discuss the social media to notify potential plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed against Gawker Media....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Quoth the Maven: “Without More!” Federal Judge Dismisses Dow Jones VPPA Class Action, While Hulu Parties Square off Over...

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A Growing Chorus of Federal Courts Finds User IDs, by themselves, Do Not Count as Personally Identifiable Information under the VPPA Recently, a federal district judge joined a number of his colleagues around the country who...more

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