October sees a range of tech and law challenges, from constitutional to copyright and beyond.
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 covers the following cases:
- U.A.W. v. Dep’t of State (S.D.N.Y. Case No. 25-cv-8566) – Unions sued the Trump Administration for its use of social media surveillance to further repressive immigration enforcement.
- Reddit v. Serpapi (S.D.N.Y. Case No. 25-cv-8736) – Reddit sued data scrapers and Perplexity AI for surreptitiously copying content from its site for LLM training.
- Florida v. Roku (Florida Circuit Court of the 20th Judicial District, Collier County Case No. 233525993) – Florida sued Roku for violating the Florida Digital Bill of Rights, including allegations that Roku harvests children’s data unlawfully.
- Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Paxton (W.D. Tex. Case No. 25-cv-1662) – Students challenged Texas’s new age verification law, claiming it violates the First Amendment.
- Computer & Communications Industry Association v. Paxton (W.D. Tex. Case No. 25-cv-1660) – An industry group also challenged Texas’s new age verification law, claiming it violates the First Amendment and the Commerce Clause.
- Starbuck v. Google LLC (Delaware Superior Court Case ID N25C-10-211) – Right-wing activist Robby Starbuck sued Google for allegedly defamatory statements generated by its chatbots.
- Dr. Rachael Kent v. Apple Inc. (United Kingdom Competition Appeal Tribunal Case No. 1403/7/7/21) – A UK tribunal found that Apple violated competition law in a pathbreaking mass action.
Related litigation is linked throughout the roundup. We also spotlight reports on OpenAI’s discovery tactics.
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