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Two major online safety bills that would force social media companies to take responsibility for how their platforms affect children and teens are poised to pass a key procedural vote today in the U.S. Senate, a step that parents and advocates have demanded for years.
The bills have broad bipartisan support in the narrowly divided chamber where Democrats hold a 51-49 majority, and are expected to be approved in a final vote next week.
The Kids Online Safety Act would require social media platforms to enable options for minors to protect their information and disable addictive product features by default.
The Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act would ban targeted advertising to minors and data collection without their consent, as well as giving parents and kids the option to delete their information from social media platforms.
The bills, nicknamed KOSA and COPPA 2.0, respectively, are the first major move to ensure children’s safety online since COPPA was initially passed in 1998, before the advent of smartphones.
The House of Representatives will have to pass the bills after the Senate’s final vote, on an unclear timeline given that the chamber has recessed until September. Read more.
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The fate of a $185 million payday for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan was in a judge’s hands after the law firm squared off in a Washington, D.C. courtroom with a group of health insurers who claim it received an undeserved windfall.
The same judge — Kathryn Davis of U.S. Federal Claims Court — awarded the fees after Quinn Emanuel secured a $3.7 billion judgment in 2020 for a class of insurers that said the Obama administration failed to meet its obligations under an Obamacare provision aimed at encouraging medical coverage to uninsured Americans.
Quinn Emanuel’s Adam Wolfson told the judge at the hearing that the firm’s $185 million fee, which amounted to 5% of the $3.7 billion judgment, represented the “rock bottom” compared with what courts have awarded in other cases. Read more.
Legal Fee tracker is a new weekly feature with Reuters’ David Thomas following the money paid out to law firms. See you next week!
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When the U.S. Supreme Court returns to work this fall, the justices will decide whether to grant review in what the 5th Circuit has described as a “seismic” case challenging precedent that shields federal agency heads from being fired at the whim of the U.S. president. It’s way too early, writes Alison Frankel, to start gaming out all of the potential fallout if the justices take the case and side with critics of the administrative state. But a new opinion by a Texas judge who halted the NLRB’s case against SpaceX, Frankel writes, offers hints at the chaos that could ensue.
Check out other recent pieces from our columnists: Alison Frankel and Jenna Greene
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Additional writing by Sandeep Shekhar Ghoshal.
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