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By Marianna Wharry | December 8, 2023
Reversing a lower court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has vacated the settlement in a discrimination class action against the social media dating app Tinder, determining that the class's representative had a strong interest in settling her claim because she had "no chance of going to trial" and failed to conduct "extensive discovery" related to the case.
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By Ross Todd | December 8, 2023
A judge in Indiana last week knocked out the state attorney general's lawsuits alleging child safety and privacy concerns on the platform. A day later a federal judge in Montana held the state's TikTok ban likely violates the First Amendment.
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By Gail J. Cohen | December 6, 2023
A Toronto-area personal injury firm's court victory highlights how commentators can pay a price for venting online.
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By Jim Turner | December 6, 2023
House Speaker Paul Renner said social media is having a "devastating effect on kids," and lawmakers should be able to impose online regulations "in a meaningful way."
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By Gus Dimopoulos | December 5, 2023
In this three-part series, Gus Dimopoulos uses recent decisions such as Kassenoff v. Kassenoff and Walsh v. Russell to discuss the detrimental effects of social media on children in divorce cases and the importance the above rulings have on protecting children of divorcing parents. This final part looks at what's being done to stop harmful content at its source, and how the New York court administration should make the benefits of recent holdings available to all divorce litigants and their children through standing, automatic orders precluding disparaging posts about the parties and their children.
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By Zack Needles | December 4, 2023
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By Jim Saunders | December 1, 2023
The law, in part, would prevent large platforms from banning political candidates from their sites and require companies to publish—and apply consistently—standards about issues such as banning users or blocking their content.
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By Amanda Bronstad | November 30, 2023
Objector lawyers who have challenged numerous Big Tech privacy settlements are fighting back against paying $8,500 bonds before appealing approval of a $725 million class action deal with Facebook's Meta Platforms Inc.
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By Gus Dimopoulos | November 28, 2023
The use of social media as a weapon in custody cases is a pressing concern. In February and March, he Appellate Division, Second Department ruled on two groundbreaking cases that address the issue—Kassenoff v. Kassenoff and Walsh v. Russell—deciding that narrowly tailored orders prohibiting a divorce litigant from posting on social media during a divorce are constitutionally permissible if the speech to be restrained is likely to produce a serious danger to children. In his three-part series, Gus Dimopoulos, a representative for Allan Kassenoff, the litigant who succeeded in obtaining an order prohibiting social media posting in his divorce, examines the importance the above rulings have on protecting children of divorcing parents. This Part 2 looks at how social media companies and the courts are falling short on providing protection to children.
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By Gus Dimopoulos | November 21, 2023
In his three-part series, Gus Dimopoulos uses recent decisions such as and 'Kassenoff v. Kassenoff' and 'Walsh v. Russell' to discuss the detrimental effects of social media on children in divorce cases and the importance the above rulings have on protecting children of divorcing parents. Part Two in this series will look at how social media companies and the courts are falling short on providing protection. Part Three will examine what's being done about it.
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