US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

In re: Casino-Style Games Litigation

Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which prohibits treating internet companies as the speakers of third-party information, prevents lawsuits against internet companies who sell illegal products provided by third parties on their online marketplaces.

• Consumer Privacy

• Amicus Briefs

NetChoice v. Bonta: The Case That Threatens the Future of Privacy

Last month, a California district court judge enjoined enforcement of the state’s Age-Appropriate Design Code, or AADC, based on a dangerously overbroad reading of the First Amendment. The weaponization of the constitution in NetChoice v. Bonta should raise alarms for all privacy and consumer protection advocates. 

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Location Tracking

• Privacy Laws

• Student Privacy

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Analysis

Bride et al. v. Snap et al.

Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prohibits (1) misrepresentation claims against internet companies who, after claiming in their terms of service that they would ban and reveal the identities of users who cyberbullied others, then refused to do so, and (2) products liability claims against the same defendants for designing an allegedly unsafe messaging product that allowed users to send anonymous, abusive messages to teens.

• Data Protection

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• Amicus Briefs

EPIC and NCL Urge Ninth Circuit to Hold Telecoms Accountable for Weak Security Allowing SIM Swap Fraud

In an amicus brief, EPIC and the National Consumers League (NCL) urged the Ninth Circuit to hold carriers liable when they fail to sufficiently protect consumers from SIM swap attacks, which can allow a fraudster to wipe out a person's entire life savings.

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Cybersecurity

• Data Security

• Updates

Ninth Circuit Revives Children’s Privacy Class Action Against Google

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Student Privacy

• Updates

Martinez v. ZoomInfo Technologies, Inc.

• Article III Standing

• Consumer Privacy

• Amicus Briefs

EPIC & NCLC to Ninth Circuit: Automated Campaign Calling Without Consent Violates TCPA

EPIC and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) filed an amicus brief in Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, arguing that Reward Zone violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) if its dialing system used a number generator to mass dial people without consent—even if Reward Zone called telephone numbers from a stored list.

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates

Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC

Whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's autodialer restriction only covers dialers that generate random or sequential telephone numbers.

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Amicus Briefs

Ninth Circuit Okays Los Angeles Program Tracking E-Scooter Riders’ Location

• Consumer Privacy

• Fourth Amendment

• Location Tracking

• Privacy in Public

• Updates

Ninth Circuit Revives Case Against Cruise Company that Used Lead Generator to Make Millions of Illegal Robocalls

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates