(Subscription required) A coalition of Bay Area legal consumer and housing advocates secured a partial reversal in a California Court of Appeal decision that enables renters to sue landlords for violations of background-check disclosure laws, even when tenants cannot show they suffered harm.

(Subscription required) Artificial intelligence-related disputes have surged to become the top litigation concern for in-house legal teams, displacing intellectual property and breach-of-contract issues. That's according to a new survey of more than 360 general counsel and senior in-house lawyers, many of them working for companies with a global footprint, conducted by the London-based law firm Shoosmiths.

(Subscription required) The U.S. Supreme Court will consider if internet users can sue websites for sharing their data with Facebook under a 1988 law aimed at protecting customers' private video rental history. Plaintiff Michael Salazar has asked the high court to revive his putative class action against Paramount claiming that a news website owned by the media conglomerate illegally shared his personal data with Meta Pixel so that he can receive targeted advertising.

The state’s property manager unveiled a new dashboard Monday designed to speed up California’s efforts to sell excess government property that can be turned into commercial projects. The portal is designed to reduce how long it takes for developers to begin construction on state-owned surplus property, the state’s Department of General Services announced in a Monday news release.