New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law Suit Survives Initial Preemption Test

Atlas Data Privacy Corp.'s suit seeking to have certain personally identifying information removed from the internet will advance after it largely defeated arguments that New Jersey’s judicial privacy shield law is preempted by federal law.

It’s largely too early to tell whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act or the Fair Credit Reporting Act—with one exception—preempt New Jersey’s version of Daniel’s Law, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said. But the National Voter Registration Act doesn’t, it ruled.

Atlas Data seeks have the addresses and telephone numbers of many judges, police officers, prosecutors, and their ...