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October 13, 2026
MONTPELIER, Vt. — In a second appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court after a lower court on remand granted a relief-from-abuse (RFA) order, the high court affirmed the RFA order regarding a woman’s allegations that a man was stalking her and making threatening posts on social media, finding that the lower court correctly determined “that there was a danger of future abuse.”
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October 13, 2026
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Privacy Act (WPA) doesn’t prohibit Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) from using Meta Platforms Inc. technology to track the searches and clicks of users of the SCH public website and SCH’s automated responses and from sharing that data with Meta to create targeted ads, the Washington Supreme Court majority ruled in a putative class lawsuit brought by website users.
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October 13, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California judge dismissed a woman’s putative class suit alleging that she received unsolicited spam emails from web-based eyewear retailer Warby Parker Inc. and that Warby Parker used tracking pixels on its website without her consent, finding that her claim under California law related to receipt of spam email is preempted by federal law and that she lacks standing to bring the remaining claims under the California Trap and Trace Law and for intrusion upon seclusion.
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October 12, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 9 denied a petition for rehearing en banc of a panel’s opinion affirming a lower court order denying a woman’s motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and preliminary injunction to prohibit her from being criminally prosecuted for a photo of a transgender politician she posted on the social media platform now known as X, with 10 judges voting against rehearing and seven voting in favor of rehearing.
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October 09, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amici curiae on Oct. 8 filed five briefs in support of New Jersey’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision that affirmed an injunction against the enforcement of New Jersey gambling laws against KalshiEX LLC, a federally regulated prediction-market exchange that allows customers to buy and sell contracts based on the outcomes of sporting events and other future occurrences, arguing from different perspectives that Congress did not use the Dodd-Frank Act to transfer regulation of sports betting from states and Native American tribes to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
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October 08, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Oct. 7 sued President Donald J. Trump, the White House Office, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), asserting that in order to pay for political ads, OMB diverted $20 million in commemorative funds appropriated to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
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October 07, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction a suit alleging that Israeli-based NSO Group Technologies Limited and Q Cyber Technologies Limited used their software product, Pegasus, to hack into journalists’ smartphones, finding that the plaintiffs failed to “establish that defendants purposefully directed any tortious act to California.”
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October 07, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Declining to impose spoliation sanctions on a defendant accused of breaching its contract in a dispute over referrals, a California federal magistrate judge said in part that the plaintiff “has not shown that anything was lost due to” the defendant’s “failure to change its WhatsApp settings when this action was filed.”
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October 05, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 5 denied a petition for certiorari filed by an individual seeking review of a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that law enforcement did not violate the Fourth Amendment by viewing a hash-matched Snapchat CyberTip video flagged as child sexual abuse material without a warrant.
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October 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 30 affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of challenges by Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Prosperity Foundation to Arizona’s Voters’ Right to Know Act, which implemented disclosure requirements for funds spent on campaign media, rejecting the argument that the law is facially unconstitutional and finding that the as-applied free-speech challenge is conclusory.
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October 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court did not abuse its discretion in certifying injunctive and damages classes in a lawsuit accusing a company that digitizes yearbooks and offers users various levels of access to the information of violating California’s statutory right of publicity, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, rejecting the company’s arguments that individual questions predominate and that the lead plaintiff will not adequately represent the injunctive class.
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October 01, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida federal magistrate judge granted in part dismissal motions filed by a documentary producer and media companies in a suit filed by former insurance mogul Greg Lindberg alleging in part that the companies conspired with other defendants to solicit Lindberg’s egg donors to breach their nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), finding that the court lacks personal jurisdiction over these defendants.
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October 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two federal student loan borrowers filed a putative class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education in a federal court in the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and other former students of “predatory for-profit institutions,” alleging that they have been deprived of “their legal entitlement to a clean financial slate” when the Education Department represented to consumer credit bureaus that they owe on student loan debts that were extinguished “years ago.”
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September 28, 2026
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama state court judge on Sept. 25 approved a settlement in which TikTok Inc. and related entities agreed to pay a minimum of $116.2 million, which includes $100 million to the state for restitution and remediation, to resolve allegations that TikTok violated the Alabama Deceptive Trade Practices Act and, among other things, designed its platform with addictive features, knowingly exposed minors to mental harms and intentionally misled consumers about the safety of its platform.
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September 28, 2026
CHICAGO — An Illinois judge dismissed without prejudice claims for breach of contract and vexatious and unreasonable delay under Illinois Insurance Code Section 155 against an insurance firm but allowed these claims to proceed against an insurance producer in an insured’s lawsuit seeking $4.89 million in cyber insurance coverage for a 2023 ransomware attack, holding that the claims must be dismissed against the firm because the policy is ambiguous by failing to indicate whether the firm or producer will pay the claim.
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September 24, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware judge granted insureds’ motion to stay insurers’ lawsuit seeking a declaration that they have no duty to defend or indemnify the insureds for underlying litigation alleging that their YouTube platform caused harm to minors, holding that a parallel California coverage suit was filed 16 days before the present lawsuit and, therefore, is entitled to deference under Delaware law.
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September 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO and three of their reporters on Sept. 24 filed a notice in a District of Columbia federal court asserting that President Donald J. Trump’s administration officials violated a federal judge’s earlier order the same day granting the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) requiring the reinstatement of their White House press credentials by defendants other than Trump.
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September 23, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arguing in favor of a ban on White House access due to an alleged “threat” to national security because CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO failed to “maintain basic minimum” professional standards, including their purported publication of classified information, the U.S. Department of Justice on Sept. 22 filed a brief opposing the news outlets’ request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) seeking to stop the defendants from taking further action to implement the ban and to immediately restore their press credentials.
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September 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After President Donald J. Trump announced on the Truth Social platform a White House ban of CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO, these news outlets and three of their reporters on Sept. 21 filed a complaint in District of Columbia federal court, asserting constitutional claims against Trump and several administration officials; the plaintiffs also moved for a temporary restraining order (TRO) that day, seeking to stop the defendants from taking further action to implement the ban and requiring the defendants to immediately restore their press credentials and access.
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September 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The New York Times and the class representative in a settled case over an alleged illegal “automatic renewal” scheme filed separate opposition briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a class member’s petition seeking review of class representative payments.
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September 18, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota federal judge on Sept. 17 dismissed with prejudice a former professional football player’s unjust enrichment and invasion of privacy suit against his ex-wife, a social media influencer and model, alleging that she publicized private facts about him on a livestream on the Twitch platform, finding that the ex-wife’s remarks were about her life and the purported trauma she experienced in their marriage and were of “legitimate public concern” given that the former spouses were both celebrities.
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September 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its petitioner’s brief filed Sept. 14 in the U.S. Supreme Court, Apple Inc. urges the court to reverse a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling upholding a district court’s contempt finding against Apple over anticompetitive practices on its App Store in an antitrust dispute with Epic Games Inc., arguing that the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming contempt based on an injunction’s “spirit” rather than its text.
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September 11, 2026
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas state court judge on Sept. 10 granted the state’s motion for partial summary judgment in its suit against TikTok Inc. and related entities alleging that the companies operating the social media platform TikTok violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act (DTPA) by “misleading consumers about their efforts to ensure that TikTok protects minors from inappropriate content,” finding that TikTok failed to remove certain categories of video content it claimed it would remove and made misrepresentations about the filtering capabilities of its restricted mode.
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September 11, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Four plaintiffs filed a putative class action complaint in California federal court alleging that PayPal Inc., d/b/a Venmo, is tracking the details of users’ financial transactions on its Venmo payment-processing app and sharing them with third parties even when users set their accounts to private, in violation of privacy laws and California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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September 11, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge awarded $146.78 million in attorney fees and service awards totaling $135,000 in a privacy class action over Google LLC’s collection of mobile-app data, while in a separate posttrial order the judge denied the plaintiffs a new trial on their California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) claim and rejected Google’s bid to overturn a $425.65 million privacy verdict.