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US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
Coverage of US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in the Nexus archive.
- AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data
AT&T and Verizon lost a Supreme Court case challenging fines for selling users’ real-time location data without consent. The Court ruled the FCC’s penalty process did not violate the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial, resolving a split between the 5th and 2nd Circuit Courts. The companies were fined $104 million in 2024 for 2018 violations.