Drawing on our recent wins at trial and on appeal before the Ninth Circuit, Tyz Law Group's resident Rhetorician Ciara McHale and Storyteller Jonathan Downing have joined forces to walk through the ins and outs of the extrinsic test's filtration framework.  Understanding filtration at all steps of litigation can be a copyright plaintiff's key to victory in an infringement claim, and we provide our battle-tested knowhow on the subject in our latest article.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could significantly reshape the scope of liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), addressing who qualifies as a “consumer” under the statute. This decision may have meaningful implications for ongoing and future VPPA litigation nationwide.

Read our latest insight from Stephanie Alvarez Salgado for a breakdown of what’s at stake and what to watch next.

In late August of this year, the Ninth Circuit in Popa v. Microsoft Corporation found that “there existed no free-roaming privacy right at common law” and clarified that an alleged violation of a statutory privacy right on its own does not automatically constitute a concrete injury sufficient for Article III standing. Recently, two district judges, in Gabrielli v. Haleon and Khamooshi v. Politico LLC, applied Popa’s standing analysis to pen register and trap and trace claims under the California Invasion of Privacy Act. In this article, we provide a background on pen register and trap and trace claims under CIPA and look at the Article III standing analysis for such claims before and after Popa.