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Justices skeptical about Facebook’s data breach disclosure to investors

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The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a dispute over whether a forward-looking risk disclosure that Facebook made to investors about data breaches was misleading when it did not disclose that the Republican-linked firm Cambridge Analytica had already taken the private data of 30 million users. Several of the justices were skeptical of Facebook’s position, but at least three of the court’s conservatives were sympathetic to the company’s argument that because the disclosure was about future events, it was not misleading.

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Facebook first learned that Cambridge Analytica had used a personality test app to harvest tens of millions of users’ data in 2015. (Katie Barlow)

RELIST WATCH

Wisconsin parents challenge school support plan for transgender students

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A regular round-up of “relisted” petitions. This week: Parents challenge a school district’s guidelines for supporting transgender students, saying they’re being kept in the dark about decisionmaking. And a homeowner challenges a ruling that she’s not entitled to compensation for severe damage to her house sustained during efforts by police to efforts to rescue a 15-year-old hostage. The justices will issue orders out of their private conference on Tuesday morning, after the holiday. 

EMERGENCY DOCKET

Supreme Court declines RNC request to intervene in Pennsylvania voting dispute

The Supreme Court left in place a ruling by Pennsylvania’s top court that requires election boards in the state to count provisional ballots submitted by voters whose mail-in ballots were deemed invalid by a ballot-sorting machine. The Republican National Committee and the Pennsylvania Republican Party came to the court arguing that the order was unconstitutional and asking the justices to put the ruling on hold.

SCOTUS NEWS

Court to hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana

The justices announced that they will hear arguments in the latest iteration of a dispute over whether Louisiana’s redistricting plan, which created a second majority-Black district earlier this year, is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and illegally sorted voters primarily based on race. The court also sent a case on the IQ scores of a man on Alabama’s death row back to the appeals court. The justices had considered Joseph Smith’s case at a record 24 consecutive conferences.

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