Alaina Lancaster, based in San Francisco, covers disruptive trends and technologies shaping the future of law. She authors the weekly legal futurist newsletter What's Next. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @a_lancaster3
June 10, 2020 | Law.com
What's Next: A Fight Over Surveillance Tech in a City Vowing to Reform Police + The 'Medical Gaslighting' of Black America + Punishing a Bad AIPrivacy advocates ask a judge to prohibit a California city's use of a controversial piece of surveillance equipment.
By Alaina Lancaster
12 minute read
June 09, 2020 | The Recorder
'Cynical Multimillion-Dollar Hoax': DOJ Charges Medical Tech Company With Fraud Amid COVID-19Arrayit Corp. has been charged with the DOJ's first criminal securities fraud prosecution related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Alaina Lancaster
3 minute read
June 04, 2020 | The Recorder
Judge Orders Trade Secrets Defendant to Stop Doing Business With Allegedly Stolen ClientsA federal judge in Sacramento granted a preliminary injunction brought by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's on behalf of ExamWorks, which will bar former employees of the medical exam provider from working with "100,000 potential customers" wrapped up in the trade secrets dispute.
By Alaina Lancaster
4 minute read
June 03, 2020 | Law.com
What's Next: Refocusing Our Surveillance State Onto Police + What Trump's Executive 'Temper Tantrum' Over Section 230 Means for End-to-End Encryption + Are Contact Tracing Apps Worth the Privacy Tradeoff?What would happen if we turned the architecture of surveillance onto police?
By Alaina Lancaster
15 minute read
June 02, 2020 | National Law Journal
Mayer Brown Leads Legal Challenge to Trump's Executive Order Targeting Social Media CompaniesThe lawsuit claims the president's order violates the free speech protections of social media companies and its users.
By Alaina Lancaster
3 minute read
May 29, 2020 | The Recorder
Yuuup!: 'Storage Wars' Star David Hester Just Lost His Court Battle With Public StorageIn an opinion Friday, California's Fourth District Court of Appeal found that the reality TV personality now "finds himself at war with defendant Public Storage," but that Hester lost this most recent breach of contract battle with the global self-storage company.
By Alaina Lancaster
3 minute read
May 28, 2020 | The Recorder
BitClave to Refund Investors $25.5M in SEC SettlementThe agency said the San Jose cryptocurrency firm led an unregistered initial coin offering of its Consumer Activity Tokens.
By Alaina Lancaster
2 minute read
May 27, 2020 | The Recorder
LA Deputies Improperly Searched House for Drugs & Guns Using Administrative Warrant, 9th Circuit RulesThe split panel found the execution of the warrant was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment since the "primary purpose" was to gather information on a criminal case.
By Alaina Lancaster
3 minute read
May 27, 2020 | Law.com
What's Next: Does the AI Commission Care About Our Privacy? + Telehealth's Post-Pandemic Future + Uber Shaves Down Legal TeamPrivacy might not be the top concern for a Congressionally appointed commission that could shape the future of AI law.
By Alaina Lancaster
8 minute read
May 22, 2020 | The Recorder
Gibson Dunn Helps Rachel Maddow Beat One America News Network Defamation Suit"For her to exaggerate the facts and call OAN Russian propaganda was consistent with her tone up to that point, and the Court finds a reasonable viewer would not take the statement as factual given this context," U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California.
By Alaina Lancaster
2 minute read
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