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A Family’s Plea: Appellate Court Urged to Reexamine Lawsuit Alleging TikTok’s Role in Daughter’s Death

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On Wednesday, a three-judge panel in the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments regarding whether a lawsuit against social media company TitTok should be revived despite a federal law that generally shields internet platforms from liability… Continue reading → The post A Family’s Plea: Appellate Court Urged (..)

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A Family’s Plea: Appellate Court Urged to Reexamine Lawsuit Alleging TikTok’s Role in Daughter’s Death

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On Wednesday, a three-judge panel in the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments regarding whether a lawsuit against social media company TitTok should be revived despite a federal law that generally shields internet platforms from liability.

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The Supreme Court takes up a messy, chaotic case about religion in the workplace–Vox.com 

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DeJoy , a lawsuit that could potentially revolutionize the balance of power between religious workers and their employers and co-workers, will be heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. It is an agonizing case, in part because it seeks to unravel a very real injustice. Nearly half a century ago in Trans World Airlines v.

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Court orders Texas to remove anti-migrant Rio Grande barriers–The Hill

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Unfortunately for Texas, permission is exactly what federal law requires before installing obstructions in the nation’s navigable waters.” Texas is ordered to remove the buoys by Sept.

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US indicts duo over alleged Swatting spree that targeted elected officials

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Apparently made over 100 fake crime reports and bomb threats Iain Thomson The US government has indicted two men for allegedly reporting almost 120 fake emergencies or crimes in the hope of provoking action by armed law enforcement agencies. Read more…

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Furthermore, the court determined that Facebook’s survival clause did not explicitly cover scraping after the termination of Bright Data’s accounts. It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external. However, many courts, most famously the Seventh Circuit in ProCD v. In 2022, in ML Genius 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. The Supreme Court in Chevron, U.S.A., 837 (1984), created a two-part framework for litigation involving congressional statutory law and regulatory agencies that enforce that law. 11] Image: US District Court. Relentless and Loper Cases A.

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