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TikTok Slapped With DOJ Lawsuit for Allegedly Violating Children's Privacy

"This action is necessary to prevent the defendants, who are repeat offenders and operate on a massive scale, from collecting and using young children's private information without any parental consent or control," Brian Boynton, head of the Justice Department's Civil Division, said in a statement Friday.
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Texas Lawyer

Meta Reaches $1.4B Settlement With Texas: Meet the Lawyers

McKool Smith and Keller Postman assisted the Texas attorney general in achieving an accelerated settlement of $1.4 billion with Meta for its unauthorized use of Facebook users' biometric data.
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New York Law Journal

Who Got the Work: Array of National Lawyers Appearing in Appeal Over Social Media Role in Buffalo Massacre

The co-chair of Morrison & Foerster's appellate practice and a Hueston Hennigan partner have entered the case on behalf of Discord and Amazon, and partners with Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe are awaiting admission to argue for Meta.
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National Law Journal

TikTok's Case Is a Winner—But Perhaps Not on the First Amendment

There are reasons why the First Amendment may not be TikTok's strongest claim, and instead why the court should strike down the act as a violation of the constitutional prohibition on Congress passing Bills of Attainder.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Moves Forward on Child Social Media Law

Facing potential First Amendment challenges, Florida has proposed details about how it will carry out a new law aimed at keeping children off social-media platforms and blocking minors from accessing online pornography.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Judge Tosses Ex-Twitter Workers' $500M Severance Case

The case, brought on behalf of about 6,000 Twitter workers, alleged Elon Musk violated a federal law that governs benefit plans. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson said ERISA did not apply to the severance program at issue but gave the plaintiffs the opportunity to refile using a different legal basis.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Nelson Mullins Adds Advertising Law Specialist to Expanding Practice Area From BCLP

Jim Dudukovich also served as Coca-Cola's senior marketing counsel for North America, where he had a hand in the company's Coke vs. Coke Zero hidden camera lawyer commercials.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Tosses Kline & Specter's California Claims Against Bosworth

"Kline & Specter was asking the court to be the first in the country to hold that a third party has standing to sue a TikTok user for supposedly violating TikTok's terms of service," Jassy Vick partner Jean-Paul Jassy, who represents Bosworth, said.
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Law.com

'Lack of Education ... and Winging It': Why Law Firms Fail at Marketing and Ways to Address Common Issues

"You've got to be realistic about where your clients are coming from and put your marketing efforts towards that," said Brendan Chard, founder and CEO of the law firm website design company The Modern Firm.
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Corporate Counsel

FTC Bans Popular Messaging App From Signing Up Kids, Says It Bullied Them

"This alleged conduct, tailormade to manipulate the vulnerable teenage psyche, was reprehensible and unfair," FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson said.
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