The Raleigh, North Carolina police department issued "reverse warrants" to Google for the purpose of collecting cellular location data of people near a crime scene. WRAL, a Raleigh television station and NBC affiliate, reported that the Raleigh police department issued four "reverse warrants" in 2017, seeking information not tied to…
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has announced a high-profile lawsuit against Sutter Health for allegedly engaging in anticompetitive conduct that has driven up health care costs for patients and employers across the state. Sutter is one of the largest health care systems in California, and one study has shown that…
Three John Does filed a lawsuit in Ohio on Wednesday, March 21st, claiming that the design of a letter sent to approximately 6,000 participants in the Ohio HIV Drug Assistance Program resulted in the disclosure of the participants' HIV status.
The National Fair Housing Alliance is suing Facebook for allegedly permitting its advertisers to target certain groups in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
The State of California sued the U.S. Department of Commerce earlier this week after the Department announced its intentions to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Read the full complaint on Justia.
Linda Brown, the young student who was at the center of a 1954 US Supreme Court case to desegregate public schools, passed away earlier this week. She was 76.
Earlier this month, online dating app developer Match Group, Tinder’s parent company, sued fellow dating app company Bumble for utility and design patent infringement, trademark infringement, and trade secret misappropriation. The suit was filed in the Western District of Texas.
Craigslist closed down its personals section on Friday after Congress passed the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act “FOSTA” last week.
A divided Minnesota Supreme Court ruled last week that the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution protects driveways from warrantless searches. This comes slightly ahead of an anticipated ruling by the US Supreme Court in Collins v. Virginia on a very similar legal issue.
On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, Facebook Inc. was sued by its investors in San Francisco federal court over a claim that the social media company failed to uphold privacy for its users. Investors stated that they faced losses due to the company’s connection to a UK-based research firm, Cambridge Analytica,…