(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.

(Subscription required) After nearly a decade prosecuting sex crimes, Judge Safaan K. Ahmed now presides over juvenile dependency cases in Monterey Park, where he works to reunify families while keeping children safe.