People should be able to watch films “without the whole world knowing,” said a Video Privacy Protection Act class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00316) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
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The plaintiffs in a fraud suit against Amazon didn’t receive the benefit of their bargain when the company hiked prices for its Prime Video subscription service in January, alleged their class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00309) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
Fourteen plaintiffs represented by Moskowitz Law filed a trio of complaints Thursday in three different jurisdictions alleging sports and entertainment defendants used the now-bankrupt FTX global cryptocurrency exchange to participate in FTX Group’s “massive, multi-billion-dollar global fraud.”
Plaintiffs unsuccessful in an antitrust suit vs. Apple three years ago filed another class action (docket 1:24-cv-00053) Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Wyoming in Casper, alleging the iPhone maker engages in “improper conduct that censors app developers.”
NetChoice wants the California Court of Appeal for the 2nd Appellate District to reverse a trial court’s opinion “that would undermine Section 230’s protections for free discourse online," said its amicus brief Wednesday (docket B335533) with the Chamber of Progress and Team Awareness Combating Overdose, a nonprofit fighting accidental drug overdoses among young adults.
Counsel for parties in a fraud suit involving Amazon Prime Video were unable to resolve their issues following Amazon’s March 1 motion to consolidate plaintiff Wilbert Napoleon’s case with In re Amazon Service Fee Litigation, said Amazon Wednesday in a motion (docket 2:24-cv-00186) for temporary stay in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
Google plays a “direct and vital role” in gift card scams by allowing cards it knows “were involved in fraud to be redeemed and spent on digital currency and/or digital products which scammers can resell for currency,” alleged a fraud class action Tuesday (docket 5:24-cv-01314) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
Internet privacy and security company NordSec, based in Lithuania, uses “deceptive and illegal” automatic renewal practices to “dupe” consumers into paying for pricey subscriptions to its virtual private network, making it “intentionally difficult to cancel,” alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 3:24-cv-00277) in U.S. District Court for Western North Carolina in Charlotte.
After buying Twitter, now called X, Elon Musk falsely asserted that certain company executives were being terminated “for cause,” but it was a “sham” designed to deprive them of their severance benefits, alleged a fraud complaint Monday (docket 4:24-cv-01304) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.
Statements in Fertility Center of Las Vegas’ (FCLV) privacy policy that it doesn’t share patients’ private information with third parties are "false,” alleged a class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00411) in U.S. District Court for Nevada in Las Vegas.