Suit Alleging Apple Dupes Public on iCloud+ Storage Gets 5th Judge in 2 Months

Plaintiff Lisa Bodenburg’s fraud class action alleging that Apple delivers iCloud+ subscribers 5 GB less monthly cloud-storage capacity than they pay for (see 2308270001) was reassigned to U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson for Northern California in San Francisco, said a text-only clerk’s notice Monday (docket 3:23-cv-04409). Thompson immediately scheduled a Jan. 25 initial case management conference at 2 p.m. PST via video only, said the notice. “All pending motions will be taken off-calendar and must be re-noticed by the moving party for a new hearing” according to the judge’s available dates, it said. Those include Apple’s Oct. 20 motion to dismiss the case in which it asserted that Bodenburg’s complaint is based on “an implausible and strained misinterpretation” of Apple’s “unambiguous and accurate” public iCloud+ disclosures (see 2310230011). Thompson is the fifth judge assigned to the case since Bodenburg filed her complaint Aug. 25. The four previous judges all recused themselves, including three who did so on a single day (see 2310270033).