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US appeals court rules that guardians can sue Google for tracking children’s YouTube activity without consent

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday reversed a ruling holding that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) preempts state law causes of action against Google for collecting data from children’s online behavior. Circuit Judge M.

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Court limits standing in credit-reporting lawsuit

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Share The Supreme Court on Friday substantially narrowed a class action against TransUnion , one of the nation’s three major credit-reporting companies. Friday’s ruling in TransUnion v. Ramirez came in a dispute that arose when a California man, Sergio Ramirez, attempted to buy a car. The Supreme Court ruled in Spokeo v.

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Rep. Nunes Wins Major Victory In Defamation Case Against Ryan Lizza and Hearst

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Nunes will be allowed to litigate his claim that Lizza defamed him by claiming that he secretly moved his farm from California to Iowa and linked the move to the alleged use of undocumented labor. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court judgment rejecting challenges to San Francisco regulations that dictated which taxi medallion holders could pick up passengers at San Francisco International Airport. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review. Zepeda , No.

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Washington family counselor challenges state’s ban on conversion therapy

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In the same year, a divided Supreme Court ruled in National Institute for Family and Life Advocates v. A federal district court in Tacoma dismissed Tingley’s lawsuit. The district court regarded itself as bound by a 2014 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in Pickup v.

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Nunes Defamation Case Against CNN Dismissed On Procedural Challenge

JonathanTurley

United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a ruling in New York to apply Virginia’s choice of law standard that in turn applied California’s defamation laws. In my torts class, I teach defamation and often discuss the California retraction law. It was a cascading deconstruction of the lawsuit.

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Vaccine requirements, cancer claims, and circuit splits

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He had used Roundup for over 30 years, and argued it caused his cancer. A federal district court awarded Hardeman $25 million after a jury concluded that Monsanto had violated California law by not warning him that Roundup could cause cancer. Both the district court and the U.S.