Procedural Violations of BIPA: One Court Says They Cause Actual Harm …

In a recent ten-page order , a federal judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California declined to dismiss a lawsuit against Facebook alleging that Facebook's "Tag Suggestions" feature violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act . The ruling means that the case, Patel v.

Judge s death gives Trump the opportunityto overhaul the liberal 9th Circuit

The death this week of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt gives President Trump the opportunity to boost the number of Republican-appointed judges on the famously liberal-leaning court, with seven seats now open. But legal experts say filling all of those vacancies could be a stretch because of partisan wrangling in the Senate.

Judge Stephen Reinhardt listens to arguments during a hearing in San Francisco in 2010

LOS ANGELES Judge Stephen Reinhardt, dubbed the "liberal lion" of American jurisprudence and as outspoken on Jewish as on legal issues, died on Thursday afternoon. He was 87. He died of a heart attack during a visit to a Los Angeles dermatologist, according to a spokesman for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, on which Reinhardt served from his appointment by president Jimmy Carter in 1980.

1,000 march in Salt Lake City over Mormon youth interviews

In this Jan. 18, 2018 photo, Sam Young, a Mormon father from Houston who is organizing a petition to stop sexually explicit interviews of Mormon youth by their LDS Bishops, talks during a news conference in... . In this Jan. 18, 2018 photo, Sam Young, a Mormon father from Houston who is organizing a petition to stop sexually explicit interviews of Mormon youth by their LDS Bishops, talks during a news conference in... .

Trump loses a trusted aide, White House anxiety lingers

President Donald Trump waves with outgoing White House Communications Director Hope Hicks before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 29, 2018, for a short trip to Andrews Air... . Protestors march down a street block an after the funeral for police shooting victim Stephon Clark, in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 29, 2018.

Pharrell Williams steps out in striped sweatpants in New York City

China hits back at Trump's trade offensive with $3bn list of 128 US goods including pork, apples and wine that may now face higher tariffs Did Trump tee up two mistresses in Tahoe? Playmate Karen McDougal breaks down president's infamous golf trip and tells Anderson Cooper he could have slept with Stormy Daniels the day she left Pharrell Williams kept it casual on Thursday in New York City after an appeals court upheld a copyright infringement verdict against him and Robin Thicke.

High court: Held immigrants can’t get periodic bond hearings

In this Oct. 10, 2017 photo, the Supreme Court in Washington is seen at sunset. The Supreme Court says immigrants the government has detained and is considering deporting aren't entitled by law to a bond hearing after six months in detention and then every six months if they continue to be held.

Federal court rules against AT&T, closing ‘loophole that could’ve swallowed the Internet’

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Federal Trade Commission in a closely watched case that threatened to undercut the consumer watchdog's ability to pursue certain misbehaving companies throughout the U.S. economy. While the case nominally began as an FTC crackdown on Dallas-based AT&T's marketing of "unlimited data" plans for cellphones, the legal battle soon took on much greater significance as the telecom giant sought to defend itself.

Supreme Court Declines To Take DACA Case, Leaving It In Place For Now

Six-year-old Sophie Cruz speaks during a rally in front of the Supreme Court next to her father Raul Cruz and supporter Jose Antonio Vargas in 2016. The U.S. Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a setback over the DACA program, which shields hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.

Attorneys Appeal Nevadas Discrimination Against Humanist Inmates

Today, the American Humanist Association Appignani Humanist Legal Center filed its opening appellate brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in its appeal from the U.S. District Court of Nevada's dismissal of their case filed on behalf of Humanist inmates in Nevada state prisons. The lawsuit, filed in October 2016, asserts that the Nevada Department of Corrections' refusal to allow Humanist inmates to study and discuss their shared convictions in a group setting while authorizing meetings for many faith groups of similar and smaller sizes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Supreme Court leaves in place California’s 10-day wait for gun…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a Second Amendment challenge to California's mandatory 10-day waiting period for new gun purchases. With only Justice Clarence Thomas in dissent, the justices let stand a ruling of the 9th Circuit Court that called the California law a "reasonable safety precaution" and one that does not violate the constitutional right to own a gun.

Trump appeals California judge’s curb on birth control rules

The U.S. Department of Justice is appealing a California judge's decision to temporarily block new Trump administration rules allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women. Lawyers filed the notice of appeal to the 9th District Court of Appeals on Friday, nearly two months after Oakland-based U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam blocked the changes to President Barack Obama's health care law.