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May 29, 2026
NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 28 affirmed a lower court ruling granting summary judgment in favor of Newsweek Digital LLC in a defamation suit related to publishing a website-based story with a quote describing covering up alleged sexual abuse at The Satanic Temple Inc., finding “that The Satanic Temple failed to establish an issue of triable fact as to Newsweek’s actual malice.”
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May 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — The California attorney general filed a complaint on behalf of the state against the successor entities of the 23andMe genetic testing company seeking civil penalties and injunctive relief for its alleged violations of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws based on the company’s failure to protect customers’ genetic data from a cyberattack.
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May 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge largely granted motions to dismiss putative class claims brought by OnlyFans subscribers who say that they were deceived into paying extra fees to “chat” and share personal information with individual creators in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws, when they in fact were talking with professional third-party “chatters,” dismissing most claims against the companies that operate the site but allowing a claim against the agencies that manage creators and chatters for sharing personal information.
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May 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge denied the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Turner Sports Interactive Inc.’s motion to stay a proposed class action alleging that third-party trackers on NCAA.com violated the pen register provision of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) pending an appeal in an analogous website-tracking case, finding that the appeal did not justify delaying the litigation because its potential effect on the plaintiffs’ Article III standing theory was uncertain, resolution could take years and a stay could postpone relief for absent putative class members.
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May 28, 2026
DALLAS — One day after an insured and its cyber insurer filed a joint motion to dismiss, a federal judge in Texas dismissed the insured’s lawsuit seeking coverage for its more than $1.2 million in losses arising from a malware attack.
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May 26, 2026
MIAMI — A Florida federal judge on May 22 issued an amended order “to correct scrivener’s errors” and dismiss without prejudice a suit filed by President Donald J. Trump seeking $10 billion in damages and alleging that he was defamed when the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published and then republished on the WSJ X account “to all 20,800,000 of its followers” a story on a purported “bawdy” card Trump allegedly sent to now-deceased Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, finding that Trump failed to “plausibly” allege that the article was published with “actual malice,” a requirement for public figure defamation claims; the current order supersedes an April 13 order.
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May 26, 2026
MCKINNEY, Texas — Texas on May 22 sued social media platform Discord Inc. in Texas state court, asserting that the platform violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act (DTPA) by falsely representing that the platform is safe when it “knowingly” maintains “one of the internet’s most efficient hunting grounds for manipulation, grooming, and predatory behavior towards children” in part by designing its product to make it easy for predators to target minors.
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May 22, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — After a Kentucky school district and Meta Platforms Inc. and its subsidiaries filed a joint stipulation of dismissal on May 21 in a California federal court, counsel for the school district issued a statement on May 22 advising that the parties had resolved the school district’s claims against Meta as well as Snap Inc., TikTok Inc. and related entities, Google LLC and YouTube LLC, in a suit accusing the social media companies of negligence in harming minors’ mental health by targeting them to use the platforms to increase revenue.
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May 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order (EO) requiring leaders of federal financial regulators to conduct a review within 90 days of regulations and practices that “unduly impede” financial technology (fintech) firms “from entering into partnerships with federally regulated institutions (including insured depository institutions, credit unions, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and futures commission merchants).”
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May 19, 2026
NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence company Groq Inc. and health care app company Groq Health Inc. told a federal judge in New York that they resolved their long-running trademark dispute.
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May 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 18 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari by two John Does seeking review of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling finding that Twitter Inc. (now known as X Corp.) is immune pursuant to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) to federal law claims and some product liability claims related to allegations that Twitter allowed child pornography to stay on the social media platform.
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May 18, 2026
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 15 affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a suit against Meta Platforms Inc. and multiple parties filed by a man who said he was defamed by posts made about him in the Are We Dating the Same Guy? Facebook group, finding in part that the claim for violation of the Illinois Right of Publicity Act (IRPA) fails because the man did not allege that his likeness was used for a commercial purpose.
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May 18, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A complaint against Meta Platforms Inc. and Instagram LLC was filed in California state court on behalf of the state accusing the companies of exposing residents to potentially billions of dollars of losses in fraud by allowing scams on their platforms in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and false advertising law (FAL).
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May 15, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT advised a 19-year-old college student to take a combination of drugs that ultimately led to his accidental overdose death, his parents allege in a California lawsuit alleging strict liability, negligence, practice of medicine without a license and violation of the California unfair competition law (UCL).
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May 15, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a case on remand from the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a California federal judge on May 14 reinstated a jury verdict awarding an employee feedback software company more than $25 million in its trade secret dispute with an employee survey software and analytics company, finding that the original judgment that implemented the jury verdict awarding “$11.7 million in compensatory damages and $14 million in exemplary damages” for trade secret misappropriation is correct.
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May 15, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The dynamic outputs created by artificial intelligence chatbots are not suitable targets for products liability actions, and a father has not alleged any basis for his California unfair competition law (UCL) claims, Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. argue in a May 15 motion seeking to dismiss a suit attempting to hold them liable for his son’s suicide.
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May 15, 2026
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a suit filed by a passenger of ride-sharing service Lyft against Lyft Florida Inc., alleging negligent and fraudulent misrepresentation regarding safety features of the platform after being purportedly assaulted by a driver booked through Lyft’s platform, finding that Florida law provides for transportation network company immunity.
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May 13, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania federal judge found that ride-sharing company Uber Technologies Inc. and Federal Express Corp. (FedEx) sufficiently showed that certain lawyers directed medical providers “to produce fraudulent medical records which informed their demands for compensation far beyond the actual injuries,” and denied a motion to dismiss the case alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) related to an alleged scheme to litigate fraudulent personal injury claims in Philadelphia state court related to motor vehicle accidents involving Uber and FedEx drivers.
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May 12, 2026
MCKINNEY, Texas — Texas on May 11 filed a petition in Texas state court against Netflix Inc., asserting that the streaming service violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act (DTPA) by misrepresenting that it did not share users’ data when instead it mined users’ data and shared it with commercial data brokers and advertising technology companies.
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May 12, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Phoenix Ikner’s extensive conversations with ChatGPT would have tipped off any reasonable person to the fact that he was planning a mass school shooting, but OpenAI entities either ignored the warning signs or never implemented the measures needed to recognize them, a widow claims in the latest lawsuit tying OpenAI entities to a shooting.
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May 08, 2026
DENVER — A Colorado federal magistrate judge on May 7 granted in part a motion to compel discovery of certain text messages sent by a woman whose company sued its business owner’s insurer for breach of contract for its purported failure to cover a claim for fire damage to her retail store, finding in part that privacy considerations related to the text messages are outweighed by the need to view them in connection with an arson investigation related to the fire.
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May 07, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 6 denied Apple Inc.’s application to stay a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversal of its order staying a mandate regarding a contempt judgment against Apple over anticompetitive practices on its App Store in an antitrust dispute with Epic Games Inc.
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May 06, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Epic Games Inc. on May 6 filed a response to Apple Inc.’s application in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to stay a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ reversal of its order staying a mandate regarding a contempt judgment against Apple over anticompetitive practices on its App Store in an antitrust dispute with Epic.
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May 06, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 5 affirmed a California federal judge’s finding that mobile device technology patent claims asserted in an infringement suit against Google LLC were invalid as directed at the abstract concept of screening notifications without an additional inventive concept.
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May 06, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The plaintiffs representing a putative class of consumers who say they were misled into overpaying for Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone models based on Apple’s misrepresentations about the artificial intelligence capabilities that the iPhone 16’s “Apple Intelligence” and Siri software would offer moved May 5 for preliminary approval of a $250 million settlement, with an estimated $70 million in attorney fees, to resolve their claims that Apple violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws.