Vice Chancellor Laster begins his May 26, 2026 opinion in the Zync, Inc. v. Porsche Investments Management, S.A. case with a Cold War era tale of a malfunctioning safety switch that prevented a hydrogen bomb from exploding over Goldsboro, North
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South Carolina Takes a Hard Line on Age-Appropriate Design – Audits, Parental Controls, Employee Personal Liability, and More
The recently enacted South Carolina Age Appropriate Design Code Act (S.C. Code Sec. 39-80-10 et seq.) (the “Act”) has the potential to become one of the country’s most consequential privacy laws. It combines prescriptive privacy-by-design controls with restrictions on facilitating…
New York Ethics Opinion Addresses Ethical Limits on Attorney Participation in Whistleblower Investigations
Lawyers representing False Claims Act whistleblowers need to be mindful of a practical question before a qui tam complaint is filed: how far may counsel go in helping a client develop additional evidence? Ethics Opinion 1297, recently issued by…
Alignment Is Not Control: Court of Chancery Dismisses the KnowBe4 Challenge
In Le Clair v. KnowBe4, Inc., the Delaware Court of Chancery recently dismissed a putative class action brought by former stockholders who claimed that two institutional investors and KnowBe4’s CEO had joined forces as a control group, and that the…
Laboratory, Owners, and Investors Settle COVID-19 Testing Fraud Allegations for $24 Million
On July 23, 2026, the Department of Justice announced that clinical lab Magnolia Diagnostics and its owners agreed to pay $19.2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for medically unnecessary respiratory pathogen…
EDPB Publishes Draft Guidelines on Anonymisation
On 7 July 2026, the European Data Protection Board published its long-awaited draft Guidelines 02/2026 on Anonymisation. The draft Guidelines – which are intended, once finalised, to replace the former Article 29 Working Party’s Opinion 05/2014 on Anonymisation Techniques –…
What Do the European Data Protection Board’s Web Scraping Guidelines Mean for AI Training Datasets?
On July 7, 2026, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published draft guidelines on web scraping for generative AI (Guidelines). The Guidelines are intended to provide practical GDPR guidance in one of the more complex areas of AI development and…
Timing Is Everything: Section 220 Standing After a Merger Closes
On April 24, 2026, the Delaware Court of Chancery adopted a recommendation by the Magistrate in Chancery to dismiss an action to enforce a demand to inspect books and records under Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) Section 220 where the…
DOJ Releases FOCUS Questionnaire to Assist in Evaluating Qui Tams Filed by Data Miners
Court Order Blocks Enforcement of California’s SB 343 Recycling Law and Could Impact State’s Extended Producer Responsibility Program
Companies that manufacture products bearing recyclability labels have received temporary relief from impending compliance obligations. On July 14, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California issued a preliminary injunction preventing California, “the State,” from enforcing SB…