Rebecca Day

Financial Risk Mitigation (FRM) maintained customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) on its computer network in a condition “vulnerable to cyberattacks,” alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-00025) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Louisiana in New Orleans.

Lead generator Response Tree and president Derek Doherty would be banned from making or assisting in making robocalls or calls to numbers on the national do not call registry under a proposed DOJ order for permanent injunction filed Tuesday (docket 8:24-cv-00001) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana. DOJ's complaint was filed Tuesday in the same court.

Notices from Citrix and Comcast to customers about an Oct. 10 data breach “failed to provide basic details,” said a new class action Wednesday (docket 0:24-cv-60008) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale.

The district court’s decision in Hachette vs. Internet Archive, in favor of four publisher plaintiffs, “paints with far too broad a brush,” said a Dec. 22 corrected amicus brief (docket 23-1260) from HathiTrust, filed Thursday before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court.

Three John Does defrauded plaintiff Phoebe Lee in a trading scheme linked to an online cryptocurrency website, Lee's fraud complaint alleged Friday (docket 2:23-cv-02008) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

Matthew Gorman’s class action against Sovos Compliance should remain in the In re MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation multidistrict litigation (MDL), said the plaintiff’s interested party response (docket 3083) Thursday to Sovos’ motion to vacate conditional transfer order 15 (CTO-15) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Midland States Bank, a defendant in Gorman’s action, filed notice in support of Sovos’ motion the same day.

Two of three negligence class actions filed last week against Comcast over an October data breach also included software provider Citrix, which notified the internet service provider Oct. 10 of the vulnerability in one of its products Comcast uses. Comcast began notifying its customers of the breach Dec. 18 after conducting an investigation into the scope of the incident and determining there had been “unauthorized access” to some of its internal systems as a result of the breach, said the complaints.

The district court’s decision in the copyright infringement case against Internet Archive “puts copyright law at odds with the Constitution,” said the Copia Institute’s Dec. 22 amicus brief (23-1260) in support of IA's appeal before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court.

RCN Telecom Services is “secondarily liable” for direct copyright infringement under sections 106 and 501 of the Copyright Act and in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, alleged motion picture distribution company Screen Media Ventures (SMV) in a complaint Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-23356) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Trenton.

LG filed a counterclaim and third-party complaint Dec. 22 against a Florida marketing and promotions company that sued it in October in a breach of contract suit claiming the electronics company owed it “millions of dollars” for unpaid invoices (see 2310270007). LG’s counterclaim was attached to its motion to dismiss with prejudice (docket 2:23-cv-21528) GS Line’s (GSL) fraud suit against LG and its Mobilecomm subsidiary, and for an award of attorneys’ fees costs and other relief in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark.