The GC Brief
California's Legislature votes to end private web-tracking suits under the state wiretap law, retroactively; a second bill on the same desk would require a human to corroborate any AI-driven firing and would shift the burden of proof to the employer in enforcement actions over discipline; the FTC's new Amazon case is about advertising disclosure, not monopoly; Delaware rewrites its privacy statute and one of the two new laws is already in force; California's privacy regulator tells data brokers an honest mistake is still a violation; the Fifth Circuit splits one policy into foreign and domestic halves; the Eleventh Circuit decides two Appointments Clause cases in three days and comes out opposite ways; New York's $75 billion climate superfund law is preempted; and a court blocks EPA's reclassification of California's Clean Air Act waivers.
September 8, 2026
The GC Brief
Meta settles the child-safety trial on terms that tighten if its competitors sign on; Workday's AI bias-testing data is privileged because its lawyers curated it; Spirit's bankruptcy sells 175,000 employee records to Google while the customer data stays home; New York's content-moderation disclosure law survives the First Amendment; the Third Circuit holds that litigating into discovery did not waive arbitration; California opens excess insurers to claims before exhaustion; the NAIC's AI examination supplement heads for adoption; and the federal environmental-review channel narrows as the Texas grid channel opens.
August 31, 2026
The GC Brief
The states' case against Meta goes to trial in Oakland; TikTok settles the Justice Department's children's privacy suit for $400 million; Delaware dismisses the Boeing door-plug oversight case; AI models hack real companies from inside their own safety evaluations; a Cold War statute restarts a California pipeline; health plan design itself becomes the fiduciary claim; tariff refunds enter the court-order phase; the Dutch regulator fines Uber €825 million; and NVIDIA discloses a $105 billion guarantee.
August 24, 2026
The GC Brief
The SEC's proposal to scale back disclosure for most public companies; twelve states sue to block Paramount–Warner Bros. after DOJ cleared it; what Loper Bright is doing to compliance positions built on agency preambles; California's first Delete Act data broker action; new accounting questions from AI spending and data-center financing; and the congressional inquiry into companies using Chinese AI models.
August 17, 2026