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10th Circuit to hear challenge to Utah social media law |
The 10th Circuit will weigh Utah's law restricting social media use by young people. Here's what to know: |
- The court will consider whether to uphold an injunction blocking the state from enforcing the law aimed at protecting the mental health of young people, which requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and impose restrictions on minors' accounts.
- Last year Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby blocked Utah from enforcing the law after concluding that tech industry trade group NetChoice was likely to succeed in establishing that the law violated the First Amendment by unduly abridging the social media companies' free speech rights. Read the PI.
- NetChoice, whose members include Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat, has won court rulings blocking similar laws in full or part in Arkansas, California, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas.
- In September the 9th Circuit largely upheld a second California social media law, this one targeting "addictive" social media feeds, rejecting most of NetChoice's First Amendment claims in that case.
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- The 10th Circuit will hear an appeal from three transgender students in Oklahoma challenging a 2022 state law that prohibits trans students from using the bathroom consistent with their gender identity. The lower court dismissed the case. Read the appellate brief here.
- The 10th Circuit will also hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by a group of Christian nonprofits challenging a Colorado state law that requires religious healthcare sharing ministries to report data to the state's Division of Insurance. The groups, represented by conservative legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, claim the requirements are "burdensome" and are designed to defame them.
- The 2nd Circuit will hear arguments in 3M's appeal of a ruling that remanded a Connecticut PFAS lawsuit back to state court. Read 3M's brief here and read Connecticut's brief here.
- The 9th Circuit will consider whether to revive a proposed class action accusing Google of too tightly restricting how customers use its digital-mapping products, causing them to pay higher prices. The lower court rejected the claims. Read that ruling here.
- U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Greenbelt, Maryland, will consider a request from the Trump administration to allow the U.S. to deport Kilmar Abrego, the migrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and then brought back to the U.S. to face criminal charges, to Liberia. A court order currently blocks him from being deported again.
- U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston will hold a scheduling conference by Zoom in a lawsuit challenging efforts by the Trump administration to effectively dismantle a 1960s-era agency within the DOJ known as "America's peacemaker" that is tasked with quelling racial and ethnic tensions in U.S. communities. Read the complaint.
- The New Jersey Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether a "shaken baby syndrome" diagnosis is scientifically reliable. The court, which is the first to weigh banning trial evidence from doctors that parents killed or injured their children through shaking, heard three hours of oral arguments last year.
- A hearing is scheduled in the case of William "Rick" Singer, architect of the largest U.S. college admissions fraud scheme ever uncovered, who helped wealthy parents secure the admission of their children to elite universities through cheating and bribery.
- Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to present the Rehnquist Award to Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Dillard in an event at the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is scheduled to speak at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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That's how much Pfizer and supplier Tris Pharma will pay Texas to resolve a lawsuit claiming they defrauded the state's Medicaid program over alleged quality control lapses in a medicine to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. Read more here. |
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- The 7th Circuit paused a judge's order that restricted when federal immigration agents can use tear gas and other anti-riot weapons on Chicago area residents, journalists and clergy members protesting the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the city. Read the decision.
- U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff in Alexandria sharply questioned the conduct of the sole prosecutor who indicted former FBI Director James Comey and President Trump's role in the prosecution, the latest in a string of setbacks for the DOJ in the case. Read more about the hearing here.
- U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan blocked the Trump administration from terminating temporary deportation protections and work permits for more than 6,100 Syrians while a legal challenge proceeds. Read more here.
- A former longtime FBI employee is suing the agency and the DOJ alleging he was fired over displaying a Progress Pride Flag in his office.
- U.S. District Court Judge Orlando Garcia in San Antonio ordered a dozen Texas public school districts to remove displays of the Ten Commandments from their classrooms by December, saying that a state law requiring such displays violates the U.S. Constitution. Read the order.
- Warner Music Group settled a copyright infringement case with AI company Udio and will jointly launch a new platform for AI song creation, the companies said. Read more.
- The founder and a former top doctor at Done Global were convicted by a San Francisco jury of conspiring to distribute Adderall and other stimulants, in the first federal prosecution of alleged illegal drug distribution by a telehealth company.
- Chief Judge Stacey Jernigan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Dallas, Texas dealt litigation funder Burford Capital a setback in its bid to collect on a $35 million investment in antitrust lawsuits brought by bankrupt food distributor Harvest Sherwood. Read more here.
- U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston ordered an independent investigation into auto parts maker First Brands, allocating a $7 million budget to probe allegations of fraud involving the company's use of third-party financing for customer invoices. Read more here.
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Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox's Sasha Rao and Todd Hopfinger walk through key considerations for turning AI innovation into patent protection. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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