Circuit Splits Reported in U.S. Law Week—April 2025

A circuit split over the proper interpretation and reach of a 1980s privacy law is drawing attention from major sports leagues, the US Chamber of Commerce, and perhaps even the US Supreme Court.

The issue has the potential to transform how the internet does business, the NFL recently told the US Supreme Court in an amicus brief filed in one of the cases involved in the split, Salazar v. Nat’l Basketball Ass’n, the Second Circuit ruling that the NBA is asking the high court to review. The case implicates the free internet, because trackers like the Meta Pixel subsidize online ...