(Subscription required) Saturday marks 30 years since President Clinton signed the Communications Decency Act, creating Section 230's immunity shield for online platforms. Courts are still grappling with its limits in cases testing whether social media companies can be held liable for allegedly addictive algorithms. 

(Subscription required) U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Kang ruled Meta inflated its defense in the social media addiction MDL by counting dormant accounts in average time-on-app figures. The company must reproduce the data with a far tighter margin of error, handing plaintiffs more precise metrics for damages and causation arguments.

(Subscription required) The 9th Circuit en banc held immigration judges must conduct a case-specific inquiry into whether severe traffic can constitute "exceptional circumstances," overruling part of a 2021 precedent and remanding a family's removal case to the BIA.

(Subscription required) Plaintiffs can pursue damages under California’s license plate scanner law even if the collector did not improperly share or mishandle the data, a San Francisco appellate court held Thursday in a case that could open the door to more litigation under the privacy statute.