By Marcia Coyle | March 12, 2018
Google Inc. tells the U.S. Supreme Court there was nothing unfair or unreasonable about the tech company's $8.5 million settlement of a privacy class action in which $5.3 million of the funds go to third parties and none to members of the class. Class members—more than 100 million Google users—each would have received 4 cents, court records show. The Google settlement directs settlement funds to be distributed proportionally to six recipients that are devoted to web privacy.
By Marcia Coyle | February 27, 2018
"I think the starting point all would agree, in what was it, 1986, no one ever heard of clouds," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said to the DOJ's Michael Dreeben on Tuesday in the data-privacy case United States v. Microsoft.
By Marcia Coyle | February 14, 2018
The crowdsourcing project SCOTUS Notes hopes to unlock some of the mysteries inside the U.S. Supreme Court's closed-door conferences. "They're not just arguing over 'reverse or affirm' but rules of the law. All this rich data is in the conference notes of the discussions they had," political scientist Ryan Black of Michigan State University says.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Justin Guido, Jacey Kaps and Steve Berlin | February 14, 2018
Data breach is today's hot button issue. And it just got hotter. On the heels of major data breaches at Equifax and Uber, the U.S. Supreme Court is confronted with the question of whether it will resolve a threshold issue in all data breach class actions—was the plaintiff class actually injured?
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Barry Skidelsky | January 3, 2018
Barry Skidelsky writes: The legal issue of “net neutrality” or an open Internet has been a point of contention between Internet access providers and network users since the mid-1990s. Most recently, this issue has become a serious matter of larger public interest that warrants some brief legal history to better understand the issue, where we are right now, and where we are all headed in this country.
By Ross Todd | The Recorder | October 16, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a case challenging the registered trademark for the name of Google Inc.'s search engine.
By Marcia Coyle, Tony Mauro and Scott Graham | September 1, 2017
Eight U.S. Supreme Court cases to watch this term.
By Tony Mauro | August 4, 2017
Electronic filing of case documents will be required beginning on November 13.
By Tony Mauro | August 1, 2017
The new changes pave the way for a planned electronic filing system that will make Supreme Court briefs and documents available to all on the site.
By Marcia Coyle | July 26, 2017
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. on Wednesday in New Zealand voiced concerns about the privacy implications of new technology that allows police to "see through walls," echoing the alarm his newest colleague, Justice Neil Gorsuch, first raised nearly three years ago.
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