Split 9th Circuit Vacates Dismissal Of Journalists’ Pegasus Spyware Suit

( July 9, 2025, 2:17 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 8 vacated and remanded a lower court order dismissing a suit alleging that Israeli-based NSO Group Technologies Limited and Q Cyber Technologies Limited used their software product, Pegasus, to hack into journalists’ smartphones, finding that the lower court abused its discretion in dismissing the suit on forum non conveniens grounds....