Google reached a $30 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of collecting children's personal data on YouTube without parental consent and thereby violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The settlement, which involves no admission of wrongdoing, highlights ongoing scrutiny of digital platforms' handling of minors' data.

A New York state appellate court threw out a civil fraud penalty of over $500 million against President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and other defendants, ruling that the penalty runs afoul of the Eighth Amendment. However, the court declined to void a Manhattan trial judge's injunctive relief in the case, which the appeals court said was "well crafted to curb defendants' business culture." New York Attorney General Letitia James said she will appeal the decision overturning the monetary penalty.

Twenty members of the military's Judge Advocate General, or JAG, Corps are poised to join the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia in a prosecutorial capacity. The military attorneys, whose role is to represent the armed forces and US soldiers in legal disputes, will start training in the US attorney's office next week and handle misdemeanor cases, a source said.

The California Supreme Court denied four Republican state lawmakers' bid to block Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's effort to hold a special election on a new congressional map. The Republicans argued that the plan would violate the 30-day waiting period that the state constitution requires between a bill's introduction and passage. The effort by California Democrats comes amid the Texas House's approval of a new voting map that is expected to establish five seats in Congress that are winnable for Republicans.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins signaled a policy shift at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, saying only a small number of crypto tokens should be treated as securities. He stressed that classification should depend on the context and structure of each asset, rather than applying a broad label.

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The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit lifted a lower court's pause of the Department of Homeland Security's plan to end Temporary Protected Status for about 60,000 people from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for Nov. 18, while the migrants' protections against deportation are set to expire on Sept. 8. Previously, US District Judge Trina Thompson had ruled that the protections must remain in place while the case moves forward.

US District Judge Fred Biery issued a preliminary injunction against a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, placing the law on hold in 11 school districts, including ones in Austin and Houston. "Even though the Ten Commandments would not be affirmatively taught, the captive audience of students likely would have questions, which teachers would feel compelled to answer," Biery wrote in his ruling.

US District Judge Richard Berman denied a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury exhibits and transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case, marking the third judge to reject such requests by the department. "The government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials," wrote Berman, who added that the request "appears to be a 'diversion' from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the Government's possession."