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Technology,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Sep. 1, 2022

Preemption provision of Children’s Online Protection Rule challenged

Before a 9th Circuit panel, counsel for the plaintiffs — Jonathan Levine of Pritzker Levine LLP in Emeryville and David S. Golub of Silver Golub and Teitell LLP in Connecticut — argued that U.S. District Judge Beth L. Freeman’s interpretation of the provision was too broad and falls outside the scope of California’s privacy protections

A class of plaintiffs challenged the preemption provision of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule in the 9th Circuit Wednesday, a year after a federal judge dismissed their case against Google for allegedly violating the privacy rights of child users while on YouTube for advertising purposes.

In the dismissal from August 2021, U.S. District Judge Beth L. Freeman in San Jose ruled that the plaintiffs’ attempt to sue the company for...

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