Rebecca Day

NovaTech, registered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, its executives and directors, and Does 1-500 conspired to commit fraud via a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme targeted to investors “with little to no experience” in trading crypto assets and foreign exchange, alleged a racketeering class action Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill for the District of Idaho in Coeur d’Alene denied Kochava’s motion to dismiss the FTC’s first amended complaint in a privacy lawsuit over geolocation data, said his signed order Saturday (docket 2:22-cv-00377).

The parties in a privacy class action vs. NBCUniversal and Peacock TV haven't engaged in any settlement discussions and anticipate a five-day trial, they said in a joint letter and proposed scheduling order Monday (docket 1:23-cv-09433). They were submitted under a Jan. 22 order and notice of initial conference from U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Santa Monica resident Marlon Siguenza joined plaintiff Daniel Kissick’s October fraud lawsuit against X (see 2311020028), said the first amended complaint (FAC) Friday (docket 23-610081) in San Francisco County Superior Court. The complaint alleges violations of California's Automatic Renewal Law (ARL) under its Business and Professional Code and its Consumer Legal Remedies Act.

After they were unable to resolve their CapCut videoediting app privacy claims against TikTok and ByteDance in mediation (see 2401120043), the plaintiffs topped off their amended complaint with five additional causes of action, said their complaint Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-04953) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Of the 23 negligence class actions against Comcast arising from the October Citrix data breach, only the plaintiffs in Diamond v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC d/b/a Xfinity plaintiffs oppose transfer to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for coordinated pretrial proceedings in the data security breach litigation, said movant Kenneth Hasson in a Friday reply (docket 3099). The filing was in support of a motion for transfer and centralization (see 2401120011) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML).

Following a Northern California judge’s dismissal (docket 2:23-cv-00734) in June of Hyperlync's January 2023 fraud complaint vs. T-Mobile, the cloud product company filed a nearly identical complaint (docket 2:24-cv-00138) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the 5th District of Texas in Dallas conditionally granted a request from relators Disney, Hulu and Netflix for mandamus relief following the Dallas County district court’s denial of their Rule 91a motion to dismiss, said the panel's opinion Thursday (docket 05-23-00485-cv). The panel also denied as moot a motion for vacating its order staying proceedings the real parties in interest filed.

Fidelity National Financial (FNF) and its LoanCare subsidiary failed to comply with industry standards to protect its customers’ “highly valuable, protected, personally identifiable information” (PII) in a November data breach that the company referred to as a “catastrophe,” alleged a class action Thursday (docket 3:24-cv-00115) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Jacksonville.

Comcast requested Wednesday that In Re: Citrix Software Customer Data Security Breach Litigation be renamed "In Re: Citrix Bleed Vulnerability And Comcast Breach Litigation" to "accurately reflect the parties and issues,” in a motion (docket 3099) for miscellaneous relief before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). Comcast also wrote in opposition to a de facto motion for miscellaneous relief filed by Citrix in its response to a motion for transfer.