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Was: Outcome recorded that the N.D. Cal. "granted Reddit's motion to remand," dating the ruling to March 30, 2026, without naming the judge or which claims were found not preempted.
Now: Corrected to reflect that Judge Trina L. Thompson (N.D. Cal.) signed the remand order on March 28, 2026 — entered on the docket March 30, 2026 — holding that each of Reddit's five state-law claims (breach of contract, unjust enrichment, trespass to chattels, tortious interference with contract, and unfair competition under Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code section 17200) contains an "extra element" qualitatively different from rights protected by the Copyright Act, and is therefore not preempted. The case returned to San Francisco Superior Court (No. CGC-25-625892), where it remains pending.
Why: Updated/corrected 2026-09-28: the entry conflated the signing date with the later docket-entry date and didn't specify the claims found not preempted. The underlying order (via Courthouse News) was added as a cited source.
Was: Outcome said Judge Paul A. Engelmayer "largely denied the defendants' motions to dismiss, holding that Reddit plausibly pleaded a DMCA anti-circumvention conspiracy," without specifying which claims survived and which were dismissed.
Now: Corrected to the July 31, 2026 ruling's specifics: Reddit's DMCA anti-circumvention claims under 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)(A) and (a)(2), plus a related civil-conspiracy claim, survive on the theory that SerpApi supplied a product to circumvent Google's access controls and Perplexity AI paid for it — but the court dismissed a § 1201(b) trafficking claim against SerpApi and Reddit's state-law unfair-competition claims.
Why: Updated/corrected 2026-09-28 to add the statutory citations and the claim-by-claim outcome, so the entry reflects exactly what did and didn't survive, with a MediaPost report added as a source.
Was: Status read "Subject to baseline DSA obligations; not designated a VLOP," based on the European Commission's designated-platforms list as of its July 2026 snapshot.
Now: Corrected to "Subject to baseline DSA obligations from Feb 2024; designated a VLOP in Aug 2026": on August 31, 2026 the European Commission designated Reddit a Very Large Online Platform under Article 33, citing 57.2 million average monthly active EU users (the six months to March 2026) against the 45 million threshold, with a compliance deadline of end-November 2026 for systemic-risk assessments, independent audits, and researcher data access. A companion tracker entry (eu-dsa-vlop-designation-2026) with the designation's full detail was added alongside the correction.
Why: Updated/corrected 2026-09-28: the prior status went stale the day the Commission acted. The related issue entry was updated the same way, and the pre-designation Commission-list source was relabeled to make clear it's a July 2026 snapshot rather than deleted.
Was: Status read "enforced (Supreme Court declined to block; merits litigation ongoing)" with no detail on where the merits litigation actually stood.
Now: Updated to "enforced (Supreme Court declined to block; Fifth Circuit round-2 appeal argued Feb. 3, 2026, no ruling yet)": after the district court granted NetChoice a renewed preliminary injunction in June 2025, Mississippi appealed again, and a three-judge Fifth Circuit panel heard oral argument for the second time on February 3, 2026, with no ruling issued as of this update.
Why: Updated/corrected 2026-09-28: the 'ongoing' status hadn't been refreshed since the injunction was renewed and re-appealed. NetChoice's own case-tracker page and Biometric Update's reporting were added as sources.
Was: Outcome said only "No judgment entered; the case remains in pretrial litigation," with no docket detail.
Now: Updated with the docket history: Phlexicon was appointed lead plaintiff (Oct. 16, 2025) and filed an amended complaint (Dec. 15, 2025); defendants' motion to dismiss (filed Feb. 13, 2026) was fully briefed by Apr. 29, 2026, and Judge James Donato heard argument on Aug. 18, 2026; as of Sept. 2026, no ruling on the motion to dismiss has been entered and the case remains pending.
Why: Updated/corrected 2026-09-28: the one-line placeholder hadn't tracked any of the docket's actual milestones since filing, so it read as more static than the case has been.