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On Monday, April 21, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, issued an opinion in Briskin v. Shopify, Inc., __ F.4th __ (9th Cir. Apr. 21, 2025), that plaintiffs will cite to attempt to expand where e-commerce platforms can be subject to courts' specific personal jurisdiction, particularly in privacy-related cases in that Circuit.

In a landmark decision on June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 opinion in Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo (Loper Bright), overturning the four-decades-old deference doctrine established in Chevron USA Inc. v. NRDC. The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice Roberts, with a concurrence by Justice Gorsuch and a dissent from Justice Kagan, joined by Justice Sotomayor and Justice Jackson.

In November 2020, a group of hackers backed by the Chinese state exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange software to hijack tens of thousands of corporate servers around the world in the Microsoft Hafnium cyberattack. The incident was far from isolated. As anyone with an online presence is no doubt aware—if only from the inundation of "your data may have been breached" notifications—cybercrime continues to vex consumers, companies, and governments.