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It Turns Out You Can’t “Sue the CDA”–Fyk v. US

Eric Goldman

Jason Fyk’s recent litigation campaign reminds me of the classic story Moby Dick, with Fyk in the Captain Ahab role and Section 230 as his white whale. The court says the issue of standing to challenge 230’s constitutionality was already litigated and decisively resolved in AFDI v. Freedom Def. Initiative v.

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So long, Chevron?: How a Group of New England Fishermen Challenged the Longstanding Chevron Approach.

The Barrister

Federal administrative law impacts nearly every element of our lives. 837 (1984), created a two-part framework for litigation involving congressional statutory law and regulatory agencies that enforce that law. Here, federal court defers to the administrative agency’s permissible construction of the statute. [5]

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The Supreme Court TransUnion Case Part 1 — What It Means for Standing in Cyber Cases

Debevoise Data Blog

Customer Data Security Breach Litigation , No. The Equifax case involves a 2017 data breach where the Social Security numbers, names, dates of birth, addresses, and other data of nearly 150 million people were exposed. In June, the Eleventh Circuit endorsed part of the McMorris analysis in In re Equifax Inc.

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Face Forward: Strategies for Complying with Facial Recognition Laws

Debevoise Data Blog

Unsurprisingly, BIPA has begun to generate significant class action litigation both in Illinois and elsewhere: The Six Flags case, involving use of fingerprint scans for admission to a theme park, resulted in a $36 million settlement. 2019 IL 123186, 129 N.E.3d million settlement. million settlement. See, e.g., Miracle-Pond v. May 15, 2020).

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Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast: Automated License Plate Readers with ACLU Attorney Matt Cagle

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Matt also conducts public records investigations and litigates cases challenging government surveillance. And our team at the ACLU, we noticed,we were looking at the law, parsing the law one day, and I was like, this looks like it’s a prohibition on sharing ALPR information. 27, 2017), [link] (last visited Dec.

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Artificial Intelligence, Real Discrimination

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

This article briefly addresses this problem, summarizes current local, state, and federal laws enacted or proposed to curtail it, and proposes two solutions for modern employers itching to implement AI-assisted employee management tools but dreading employment litigation. Others do not. This desire is understandable.