JURIST Guest Columnist Chris Hoofnagle of Berkeley Law, discusses the policing of Facebook’s privacy policies and FTC enforcement … The Challenge of Policing Facebook Are our institutions up to the challenge of protecting users from information-age problems? This is the high-level question emerging from the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica debate. While on one hand Facebook and similarly-situated [...]

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a lawsuit Friday against Donald Trump, Russia, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and several Trump aids including Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York , alleges 12 causes of action, including computer crimes, trespass, fraud, [...]

A Texas appeals court ruled Thursday that the Relationship Privacy Act , which prescribes criminal and civil penalties for defendants who disseminate pornographic visual material featuring former significant others without consent, is overly broad and it violates First Amendment rights of third party individuals who are not original parties in the romantic relationships. The statute [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former Liberian commander known as “Jungle Jabbah” to 30 years in prison for defrauding the US immigration authorities and lying about his role during the Liberian civil war. Mohammed Jabbateh, a 20-year resident of Pennsylvania, was found guilty in October on two counts of fraud in immigration [...]

Two federal regulators on Friday announced a $1 billion settlement with Wells Fargo after finding that the the bank violated the Consumer Financial Protection Act. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) found that Wells Fargo unfairly failed to follow the mortgage-interest-rate-lock process it explained to some [...]

A federal judge on Thursday enjoined the US government from sending a US citizen who has been detained in Iraq for almost a year to another country. This order follows the American Civil Liberty Union’s request to temporarily block the detainee’s transference until the US government could produce legal authority that supported moving him to [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday ruled that Indiana’s recent abortion law, House Enrolled Act No. 1337 , is unconstitutional . The law was enacted on March 24, 2016, and was challenged in court by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky . The law prevents women from having an abortion [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday held that a law preventing the stocking up of alcohol from another province is constitutionally valid. The case involved Section 134(b) of the New Brunswick’s Liquor Control Act, which forbids residents from possessing large amounts of alcohol not purchased from the New Brunswick Liquor Corporation&#8212i.e. purchased from other [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s attempt to punish so-called “sanctuary cities.” The lawsuit was filed by the city of Chicago after the Department of Justice (DOJ) placed conditions on the receipt of funds from the Edward Byrne [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held Wednesday that an Ohio law banning the state’s Department of Health from funding any entity or its affiliate performing or promoting non-therapeutic abortions through grants received from six non-abortion-related federal health programs is unconstitutional. The plaintiffs in the case, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and [...]