Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: California and 19 other states’ attorneys general are suing the Trump administration to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ from allegedly disclosing Medicaid beneficiaries’ personal health information to the Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced the lawsuit…
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New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters
Maxwell Zeff reports: New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios, including the death or injury of more than 100 people, or more than $1 billion in damages. The passage of the RAISE Act represents a win for the…
The BR Privacy & Security Download: May 2025
Sharon R. Klein, Philip N. Yannella, Alex C. Nisenbaum, Harrison Brown, Jennifer J. Daniels, and Jeffrey N. Rosenthal of Blank Rome LLP recently published a roundup of recent privacy and data security news and changes. Their article includes U.S. state and federal laws, federal litigation, federal enforcement, and international laws and regulations. Some of what…
Trump-Appointed Judge Rules Administration Can’t Remove Migrants Under 18th Century Wartime Law
Nicholas Riccardi reports: A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump’s invocation of it was “unlawful.” U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. is the first judge to rule that the Alien Enemies Act cannot be used against people who, the Republican…