“It will essentially break the internet” if consumers’ rights to opt out of website advertising are too sweeping, said Rick Arney, who co-wrote the legislation creating the California Privacy Protection Agency.        

Taft Stettinius is among 21 law firms to report data breaches this year.        

“Where, as here, parties have agreed to two contracts—one sending arbitrability disputes to arbitration, and the other either explicitly or implicitly sending arbitrability disputes to the courts—a court must decide which contract governs,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote.        

I will not present a side here because there isn’t a “good” side to take. In my opinion, there aren’t even “sides” as much as multifaceted issues at play.        

“The EPA’s new PFAS rule is the agency’s first-ever exercise of its authority under Section 102(a) to directly identify CERCLA-specific hazardous substances,” write Andrea Driggs, Meredith Weinberg and Benjamin Longbottom of Perkins Coie.        

The Academic Senate voted 43% in favor of the no-confidence resolution and voted 50% in favor of censuring Chancellor Gene Block.        

Ryan Salame’s attorneys from Mayer Brown asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to impose a sentence of no more than 18 months, arguing that he was not part of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle.        

“I just want to commend this nominee for her comportment because what her comportment says to me is that she is going to be a damn good judge,” Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said of Sarah Netburn, a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.        

The class action, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey by five plaintiffs in talcum powder lawsuits, names Johnson & Johnson, its subsidiaries and several current and former officers and directors.        

ALM litigation reporter Emily Saul has been in the courtroom every day of the trial and gets us up to date about what is going on, including bizarre behavior by Robert Costello and what we can expect in the coming week.