Whitepaper
The California court barred private lawsuits under COPPA
COPPA applies to any operator of a commercial website or online service directed to children under 13 years of age that collects, uses, and/or discloses personal information from children. Introduction In Hubbard v. Google LLC 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 239936, the California court ruled against the plaintiffs’ state law action concerning Google’s allegedly deceptive conduct in collecting and handling children’s personal...
The New York Court interpreted that COVID-19 Pandemic is a natural disaster within a force majeure clause in excusing contract performance
The pandemic had an impact on the contractual performance beyond the parties’ reasonable control, hence the parties were entitled to terminate the agreement. Introduction In JN Contemporary Art LLC v. Phillips Auctioneers LLC, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 237085,the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the COVID-19 pandemic is a “natural disaster” within a force majeure clause. The...