Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control

Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control

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,”…

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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…

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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…

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No Attorney’s Fee Award for This Type of Prosecutorial Misconduct

September 22, 2011

No Attorney’s Fee Award for This Type of Prosecutorial Misconduct

By: Ifrah Law

The case of United States v. Shaygan recently made the news when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit overturned a district court’s award of $600,000 in attorney’s fees to a defendant who was the victim of prosecutorial misconduct. The misconduct was indeed egregious — including recording conversations between a lawyer and a defense investigator, violating discovery orders, and vexatiously filing a superseding…

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Prosecutors’ Misconduct Is More Than Just ‘Honest Mistakes’

September 8, 2011

Prosecutors’ Misconduct Is More Than Just ‘Honest Mistakes’

By: Ifrah Law

A federal judge in the District of Columbia recently ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice will be allowed to retry star pitcher Roger Clemens on perjury charges after a mistrial was declared earlier this summer when the prosecution made reference to inadmissible evidence in open court. The government claimed that its violation of court orders was done inadvertently and was not an instance of…

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Judge Delivers Rebuke to Prosecutors in Sentencing NSA Official

August 17, 2011

Judge Delivers Rebuke to Prosecutors in Sentencing NSA Official

By: Ifrah Law

The recent sentencing of a government intelligence official saw a dramatic and unusual rebuke of the U.S. Department of Justice by a federal judge. Four years after searching the home of National Security Agency official Thomas Drake, who was suspected of illegally leaking classified information to a reporter, and more than year after actually indicting him on 10 felony counts, the government dismissed those charges…

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Major FCPA Case in Jeopardy Because of Prosecutors’ Errors

August 5, 2011

Major FCPA Case in Jeopardy Because of Prosecutors’ Errors

By: Ifrah Law

In late June, U.S. District Court Judge Howard Matz of the Central District of California, the judge in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) case against Lindsey Manufacturing Co. and two of its executives, invited both sides to submit briefs on the question of whether the defendants’ convictions should be dismissed. It had been revealed in post-verdict proceedings that the government violated a court order…

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Is Unsealing False Claims Act Complaints the Right Answer?

August 3, 2011

Is Unsealing False Claims Act Complaints the Right Answer?

By: Ifrah Law

Companies should make vigorous efforts to unseal civil False Claims Act complaints against them earlier in the process in an effort to achieve better results, argues Michael K. Loucks, a former acting U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts who is currently a Boston-based partner in a major law firm. Loucks also co-authored a post on his firm’s website, further explaining why companies should take…

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Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control

Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control
By: Lauren Scribner

New Laws for AI Developers: California’s Fork in the AI Regulatory Road

New Laws for AI Developers: California’s Fork in the AI Regulatory Road
By: Steven Hess

Flirting with Disaster: Kid Glove Treatment of an Assassination Attempt Sets Damaging Example

Flirting with Disaster: Kid Glove Treatment of an Assassination Attempt Sets Damaging Example
By: James Trusty

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