VPPA Class Action vs. Nexstar Gets Moved to Urbana Courthouse

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Hawley for Central Illinois in Peoria entered a text order Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-1050) transferring plaintiff Zachary Rohlfs’ Video Privacy Protection Act complaint against Nexstar Media to the courthouse in Urbana. Hawley had ordered Rohlfs on Feb. 14 to show cause why the case shouldn’t be transferred since he lives in Kankakee County, Illinois, which is within Urbana’s jurisdiction. Rohlfs agreed in his response Tuesday that moving the case to Urbana was “appropriate.” Not only does Rohlfs live in Kankakee County but “a substantial part of the conduct at issue in this case occurred and/or emanated” from there, it said. The Urbana courthouse reassigned the case Wednesday to U.S. District Judge Colin Stirling Bruce and Magistrate Judge Eric Long, said a text-only entry in the docket. Rohlfs’ Feb. 9 class action alleges Nexstar knowingly disclosed to Facebook data containing subscribers’ personal identifiable information and digital video viewing activity on its WGNTV.com website (see 2302100028).