Rebecca Day

The amended complaint in a copyright lawsuit alleging Universal Music Group, Sony Music and other labels fraudulently sent takedown notices to YouTube should be dismissed with prejudice for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted, said defendants UMG, Sony Music and others Friday in a motion to dismiss (docket 8:23-cv-01942) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.

Plaintiff Jesus Marcos lost “hundreds of thousands of dollars in money and cryptocurrency” as a result of T-Mobile’s negligence in a SIM swap, alleged his 18-count fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 5:24-cv-00085) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Riverside.

Defendant Charlie Green knowingly and willingly breached a licensing agreement by asserting a copyright claim to a musical composition he didn’t own, said a copyright infringement complaint Friday (docket 7:24-cv-00256) brought by Jaze Ltd. in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in White Plains.

Jane Hart aims to hold Mr. Cooper Group mortgage company and parent Nationstar Mortgage accountable for the harms it caused, and will continue to cause, to nearly 15 million individuals affected by a “massive and preventable” Oct. 31 data breach, said the Tennessee resident’s class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00093) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

The seven months Norton Healthcare waited between learning of a May 9 data breach in its servers and its Dec. 8 notification to affected patients deprived plaintiff Logan Aldridge and class members of the ability to “promptly mitigate potential adverse consequences” resulting from it, alleged Aldridge's class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00025) in U.S. District Court for Kentucky in Louisville.

Enrique Munoz's class action is one of a dozen named in a motion before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to transfer the cases in In Re: Citrix Data Security Breach Litigation to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings, said a Thursday filing (docket 1:23-cv-17096) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Healthcare platform provider Navvis & Co. failed to protect Richard Lilly’s personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI) in a “preventable” cyberattack, alleged Lilly's class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-00063) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis.

Two of three plaintiffs in a negligence lawsuit against cloud computing company Citrix have experienced identity theft as a result of the company's Oct. 10 data breach, they alleged in a class action Wednesday (docket 0:24-cv-60070) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale.

Internet searches can reveal a user’s “medical diagnoses, religious beliefs, financial stability, sexual desires, relationship status, family secrets, political leanings, and more,” so it’s “reasonable for the public to expect that their privacy and confidentiality are constitutionally protected,” said the American Civil Liberties Union in a news release Wednesday publicizing its Pennsylvania Supreme Court amicus brief (docket 98 MAP 2023). Other amici on the brief, filed Wednesday, are the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Library Freedom Project, Association of Research Libraries, Freedom to Read Foundation and Internet Archive.

AT&T and TS Mobility’s “deceptive trade practices” and "failure to supervise" their employees have deceived customers in violation of New Jersey law, said a Dec. 1 negligence class action in Bergen County Superior Court, removed Wednesday to U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark (docket 2:24-cv-00174).