For years, 2K Games has refused to refund gamers, including children, for their unused in-game currency, alleges a fraud class action Friday (docket 3:23-cv-05961 ) vs. 2K and Take-Two Interactive Software in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
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Plaintiffs seek to resurrect five claims in their consolidated complaint against Meta in In Re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation, but they “have failed to remedy the defects” the court identified in its September order (see 2309080055), said the Facebook parent’s motion to dismiss (docket 3:22-cv-03580) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
A consolidated class action complaint (docket 1:23-cv-01168), filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver over Dish Network’s February data breach, added violations of Virginia and Wisconsin state laws to negligence, breach of contract, unjust enrichment and violations of the FTC Act and North Carolina Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
Speakers from different advocacy groups clashed during an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation webinar Wednesday over what controls the courts and lawmakers should place on social media companies amid what the multitude of pending lawsuits claim is a youth mental health crisis fueled by internet addiction.
A day after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for Northern California denied social media defendants’ motion to dismiss a negligence lawsuit against them for their alleged role in fueling a youth mental health crisis in the U.S., Facebook and Instagram parent Meta blogged in favor of federal legislation “to create simple, efficient ways for parents to oversee their teens’ online experiences.”
Cognizant Technology’s human content moderation system, designed to remove offensive social media content, causes or contributes to numerous mental and physical illnesses, injuries and conditions, for individuals subjected to “long-term unmitigated exposure to such content,” alleged a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 8:23-cv-02607) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.
Three defendants identified as Does 1-3 have used Google trademarks related to AI to “lure unsuspecting victims into downloading malware onto their computers,” alleged a trademark infringement lawsuit Monday (docket 5:23-cv-05823) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
Plaintiff Dominic Fiacco’s claims against the University of Rochester in a fraud case (docket 6:23-cv-97200) involving Progress Software Corp.'s May MOVEit data breach “shares extremely limited factual overlap” with centralized actions in In Re: MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation. So said Fiacco’s memorandum Monday (docket 3083) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in support of his motion to vacate conditional transfer order 7 (CTO-7) with respect to his case.
Defendants defrauded Google and others by creating over 60 fake accounts so they could submit thousands of fraudulent copyright infringement notices against their competitors, alleged a complaint Monday (docket 4:23-cv-05824) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) claims in California et al. vs. Meta, brought in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland last month by 33 attorneys general (see 2310250066), are “self-defeating,” said attorney Cathy Gellis on a Chamber of Progress webinar Thursday examining social media addiction lawsuits pending before state and federal courts.