In long-awaited news, Governor Newsom has signed SB 690, meaning that any Section 638.51 claims that were filed against a company after January 1, 2025 and based on conduct occurring on an internet website or...

For the past several years, most of the action in website-tracking litigation under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) has occurred on motions to dismiss. Plaintiffs have alleged that pixels, cookies, session-replay tools, and...

On September 10, 2026, Governor Newsom signed SB 1119, known as Adam’s Law, substantially expanding California’s requirements for companion chatbots when used by children. This is California’s second companion chatbot statute, building on SB 243,...

The question of whether sports event contracts can be listed on prediction markets appears to be headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court. On August 28, 2026, the Ninth Circuit held that sports event...

Courts have spent years working through how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) applies to web scraping, including whether access to a website occurs “without authorization.” In Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc.,...

For the past two years, plaintiffs’ lawyers have increasingly relied on an unlikely provision of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) to target ordinary website technologies. Today, the Assembly and Senate passed an amended...