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October 20, 2025
Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control
By: Lauren Scribner
In September, a nearly $60 million settlement was reached in Frasco, et al v. Flo Health, Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc., Google, LLC, and Flurry, Inc. The case,[1] a class action filed in 2021, alleged inter alia that Flo Health Inc. (“Flo”), a popular women’s health tracking application estimated to have over 38 million monthly users, invaded the privacy of its users by sharing personal and sensitive fertility data with third parties without their consent. The class action was filed on the heels of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after allegations that despite millions of users trusting Flo “with intimate details of their reproductive health” under repeated assurances that it would “protect the information and keep it secret,”…
New Laws for AI Developers: California’s Fork in the AI Regulatory Road
October 16, 2025
New Laws for AI Developers: California’s Fork in the AI Regulatory Road
By: Steven Hess
AI Regulation and The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act Artificial intelligence (“AI”) products have become an increasingly significant aspect of U.S. innovation, growth, and development. Generative AI is being used to predict the structure of proteins and other biomolecules in pharmaceutical research,[1] to simulate wargames for the U.S. military,[2] and to drive an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars of growth in sectors from…
Flirting with Disaster: Kid Glove Treatment of an Assassination Attempt Sets Damaging Example
October 6, 2025
Flirting with Disaster: Kid Glove Treatment of an Assassination Attempt Sets Damaging Example
By: James Trusty
On a crisp October afternoon while the media focused on P Diddy’s high-profile New York sentencing, a less conspicuous—but more consequential—hearing took place in another federal courthouse, not far from the nation’s capital. Nichola Roske was sentenced for the attempted assassination of at least one Supreme Court associate justice. On June 8, 2022, Roske flew across the country—California to Virginia—and then traveled by cab to…
Your Mom and the Courts Agree: Naked Online Pix are Not OK
March 25, 2015
Your Mom and the Courts Agree: Naked Online Pix are Not OK
By: Ifrah Law
Since the 1990s and the rise of the Internet and social media, each one of us has become increasingly aware of the risks and dangers of unwanted posts and how fast a “discreet” image can go viral. The development and evolution of the Internet has brought with it a host of novel legal issues, from the worldwide threat of cyber bullying to disgruntled employee posts,…
Bureaucracy Unlimited
March 17, 2015
Bureaucracy Unlimited
By: Nicole Kardell
This article first appeared on FEE.org – you can access this version at https://fee.org/freeman/detail/bureaucracy-unlimited Big Gov and Big Biz. Are they holding hands, shaking hands, or boxing? It depends on the day and the issue. But while Big Biz hardly seems like a sympathetic character, Big Gov always has the upper hand. Remember Arthur Anderson? Perhaps not. It used to be the biggest accounting firm around….
What Expats Need to Know Now about their Taxes, FATCA and the IRS
March 9, 2015
What Expats Need to Know Now about their Taxes, FATCA and the IRS
By: Nicole Kardell
Are you an American abroad living in perpetual fear of the IRS? Do you wake up every morning wondering if today you’ll receive a formidable notice that the taxman cometh? You are not alone. Expats around the world are facing (and fearing) the painful reality that the IRS’s global tax enforcement effort is underway. While you may want to stick your head in the sand,…
SCOTUS Rules No Felony for Throwing the Little Ones Overboard
February 27, 2015
SCOTUS Rules No Felony for Throwing the Little Ones Overboard
By: Ifrah Law
This week, the United States Supreme Court resolved some fishy matters on which prosecutors sought to base a federal felony conviction. The case, Yates v. United States, arose from a offshore inspection of a commercial fishing vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. During the inspection, a federal agent found that the ship’s catch contained undersized red grouper, in violation of federal conservation regulations. The agent…
Court Reins In Prosecutorial Overreach in Insider Trading Cases
February 25, 2015
Court Reins In Prosecutorial Overreach in Insider Trading Cases
By: Ifrah Law
In an effort to reinstate powers stripped from them by the Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Newman and Chiasson, prosecutors have sought a rehearing of the landmark Second Circuit decision which severely curtailed the scope of insider trading cases. The case is one which has already seen a dramatic reversal, so it is perhaps no surprise that prosecutors are hoping for the tide to…
