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National Law Journal

Musk's X Corp. Mounts Supreme Court Challenge to Jack Smith's Trump Warrant

X claims the nondisclosure order for Donald Trump's private messages was improper and that the company should have been allowed to give the former president, or his representative, the opportunity to assert executive privilege.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

American Airlines Sued Over Staffer's Alleged 'Terror Campaign'

"Using social media and other means, (the defendant) was able to create a dossier on the plaintiffs and use their past trauma for his personal enjoyment," the complaint alleged.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Prime Hydration Files Defamation Suit Against Boxer Ryan Garcia

Greenberg Traurig filed the action Thursday on behalf of Prime Hydration in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The firm is also defending the company in a class action accusing it of containing toxic chemicals, which Paul recently addressed in a TikTok video.
3 minute read

Law.com

Snapchat Faces Wrongful-Death Suit Following 'Sextortion' Scheme Involving 13-Year-Old Boy

Snapchat is accused of strict liability and negligence in a wrongful-death suit where a 13-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide after he was a victim of a "sextortion scheme," according to the federal lawsuit filed in South Carolina.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Surge in Social Media Drug Promotion Driving Calls for More Oversight

"I think the industry would like more clarity from the FDA on what exactly its position is on its authority over social media," said Mahnu Davar, a partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

'Obviously Unconstitutional': TikTok Challenges Law That Could Ban the App in the US

"If upheld, (the statute) would allow the government to decide that a company may no longer own and publish the innovative and unique speech platform it created," the company's complaint states.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Can You Contract Away Your Right to Leave Bad Google Reviews? Court of Appeals Set to Decide

Ryan and Asia Davis, a disabled army veteran and his wife, were sued by the SD Gunner Fund, a nonprofit that trains and provides service dogs to veterans, first responders and children, when Asia Davis led a review bombing campaign slamming the company on Google after an agreement between the charity and the Davises to provide the family a service dog fell apart.
5 minute read

Law.com

'This Is a Recurring Problem': Objector Appeals $725M Facebook Settlement

In a May 4 opening brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, objectors said that the Facebook settlement over the Cambridge Analytica scandal discounted the statutory claims of 253 million class members by more than 99.7%.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Disciplinary Court: Phila. Judge Violated Conduct Rules With Politically Charged Facebook Posts

The case is the first in Pennsylvania to grapple with what a judge may or may not post on social media. At the heart of the matter is a question of where the line lies between impropriety and a judge's protected free speech.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Social Media State Action Decision

Although Section 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment draw a dichotomy between state action and private action, the real world is much messier than that. In 'Lindke v. Freed', the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous decision provided guidance for determining when a state or local official's social media activities constitute state action.
10 minute read

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