Year Ends with a Bang, Not a Whisper: EU Issues First DSA Enforcement Fine, Prompting US Retaliation; OpenAI Sued by Victims of Murder-Suicide; Free Speech Challenge to ICEBlock Ban
The Tech Litigation Roundup gathers and briefly analyzes notable lawsuits and court decisions across a variety of tech-and-law issues. This month’s roundup features the following cases:
- EU Commission Enforcement Action Against X – The EU Commission issued its first-ever fine under the Digital Services Act.
- X v. Russmedia (Court of Justice of the EU Case C‑492/23) – The EU’s highest court ruled that online marketplaces are data controllers under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, making them responsible for personal data misuse.
- First County Bank ex rel. Suzanne Adams v. OpenAI (California Superior Court CGC-25-631477) – OpenAI was sued after ChatGPT allegedly enabled a murder-suicide.
- Aaron v. Bondi (D.D.C. Case No. 25-CV-4250) – The founder of an app that tracks the location of immigration enforcement agents sued Trump Administration officials for pressuring Apple to remove it from its app store.
- San Francisco Tenants Union v. SmartRent Technologies (California Superior Court CGC-25-631212) – Tenants filed a lawsuit over surveillance technology installed in their homes by landlords.
- Computer & Communications Industry Association v. Paxton (W.D. Tex. Case No. 1:25-CV-1660-RP) – A court enjoined a Texas law that would require age verification and parental consent for nearly all apps, preventing it from going into effect.
Related litigation is linked throughout the Roundup.
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