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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Officer Misconduct Reform Issues Highlighted in Brooklyn District Attorney’s Dismissal of Nearly 400 Convictions

September 20, 2022

Officer Misconduct Reform Issues Highlighted in Brooklyn District Attorney’s Dismissal of Nearly 400 Convictions

By: Jake Gray

On September 7, 2022, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office announced its request to vacate nearly 400 convictions, dating back to 1999, that were founded on testimony provided by officers who were later found guilty of crimes committed while on duty. Among the 13 officers’ crimes are murder, planting drugs, taking sex bribes, civil liberties violations, and perjury—crimes that called “into question the integrity of every…

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More than a Mantra: Pitfalls of Excluding Time under Speedy Trial Analysis

July 1, 2022

More than a Mantra: Pitfalls of Excluding Time under Speedy Trial Analysis

By: James Trusty

This week the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stinging reminder about the need for precision in the case of U.S. v. Pikus, No. 20-3080 (2d Cir. 2022). Aleksander Pikus was one of four defendants charged with money laundering conspiracy and related offenses for bilking Medicare and Medicaid through false billings. The scheme featured unnecessary ambulance rides to a Brooklyn medical clinic apparently run…

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Michigan’s High Profile Boomerang

April 21, 2022

Michigan’s High Profile Boomerang

By: James Trusty

About one month before the 2020 election, the Department of Justice proudly announced their disruption of a scheme to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Six men were arrested and referred to as “violent extremists.” Gov. Whitmer’s surrogates indicated that the blame was not fully on the gnarly bearded men whose pictures dominated newscasts around the country, but on Donald Trump, who had whipped up crowds…

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Modern Day Ceasar Faces Brutal End

August 23, 2021

Modern Day Ceasar Faces Brutal End

By: James Trusty

Last week’s Second Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in U.S. v. Sinmayah Ceasar, 2021 WL 3640387 (2nd Cir. Aug. 18, 2021) provides some insight into the challenging area of defining a “reasonable” sentence and ascertaining the circumstances when appellate courts might overturn a judge’s sentencing decision for being “unreasonably” lenient. The case against Ceasar was not built in a day. The government obtained evidence that…

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Time to Face the (Hidden) Music

August 2, 2021

Time to Face the (Hidden) Music

By: James Trusty

A Texas man named Guy Reffitt has found himself at the edge of the new legal frontier, a place where privacy rights and encrypted technology face aggressive prosecutors willing to push for their strongest criminal case. This Guy did not bring a lot of sympathy to the legal battle—he is alleged to have traveled from Wylie, Texas to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, with…

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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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