Standing should not stop data breach suit, civil liberties group says
Consumers whose personal information was accessed in a cyberattack should not have to show someone stole their identities or ruined their credit to have standing to sue the hacked company, according to...
View ArticleFAA can enforce queries into viral ‘weaponized’ drone videos
The FAA’s “no drone zone” warning sign outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio A Connecticut father and son must comply with the Federal Aviation Agency’s investigative subpoenas...
View ArticleJudge tosses hacking suit over #NeverTrump tweet
The Colorado Republican Committee cannot bring a civil suit under a federal computer hacking law against an anonymous defendant who allegedly accessed the group’s Twitter account and posted an...
View ArticleTrump defeats $84 million defamation suit over domain dispute
Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization and two associates have dodged a New York federal lawsuit seeking $84 million that alleged the presidential hopeful was responsible for defaming the owner of the...
View ArticleLawyer’s PRISM surveillance suit pushes forward
Attorney Elliott Schuchardt The government must continue to face an attorney’s lawsuit saying its PRISM program unlawfully captures and intercepts substantially all emails American citizens send,...
View ArticleFOIA suit against FBI seeks Black Lives Matter surveillance
Two nonprofit groups have sued the U.S. government in New York federal court, seeking public records about the monitoring and surveillance of public protests concerning Black Lives Matter, racial...
View ArticleElection agency’s IT security report exempt from FOIA, judge says
The Federal Election Commission has defeated a lawsuit filed by a reporter and investigative journalism organization the Center for Public Integrity seeking disclosure of a study assessing...
View ArticleLawyers weigh in on design patent defeat in Apple/Samsung smartphone case
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the Federal Circuit’s interpretation of the Patent Act for design patent infringement awards, leaving up in the air a $399 million jury verdict Apple won in a case...
View ArticleLawyers seek more tech training, ABA survey finds
Lawyers at firms of all sizes want live training classes on technology, but this kind of instruction is often scarce at smaller law firms, according to the 2016 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. The...
View ArticleTrump defeats $4 million defamation suit over tweets
A political strategist may not sue President-elect Donald Trump for defamation based on his tweets that claimed she had turned hostile after she begged him for a job and his campaign team turned her...
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