Rebecca Day

Dow Jones and National Geographic Partners knowingly disclosed to Facebook information that identifies plaintiffs and class members, said two Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) class actions filed Tuesday by law firms of Jibrael Hindi, Hiraldo and Eisenband Law in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.

AT&T, Equifax and the National Consumer Telecom & Utilities Exchange (NCTUE) were “plainly deficient” in their investigations of plaintiff Linda Surrency’s credit reporting dispute over identity theft, alleged Surrency’s Fair Credit Reporting Act complaint Thursday in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa (docket 8:23-cv-02323).

The FTC has an “uphill battle,” said Herb Hovenkamp, University of Pennsylvania law professor, Tuesday on an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation webinar on the commission’s September antitrust complaint against Amazon (docket 2:23-cv-01495) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

Social media companies, such as Google, have turned the free exchange of ideas “on its head,” said independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Friday reply brief (docket 3:23-cv-03880) in support of his motion for a preliminary injunction against Google to prevent it from removing his videos from YouTube. Kennedy is suing Google in a free speech suit after YouTube removed anti-vaccine videos of Kennedy’s that violated its medical misinformation policy.

Eisenhower Medical Center installed Facebook’s Meta Pixel tracking tool and other third-party tracking technology on its web properties in order to send users' private information to third parties such as Facebook or Google, allege plaintiffs B.K. and N.Z. in a Thursday privacy class action (docket 5:23-cv-02092) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Riverside.

“Tens of thousands” of FuboTV subscribers in 23 Nexstar markets were under threat to “suddenly lose access to ABC content” Saturday for two months, said a Fubo breach of contract complaint (docket 654978/2023) Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Fubo seeks a permanent injunction enjoining Nexstar and Tribune Media, which it bought in 2019, “from restricting access by Fubo subscribers to ABC content from affiliate stations.”

“Technology has evolved but the law has not," said defendants Atlas Marketing Partners and Atlas Investment Ventures in a Wednesday reply (docket 3:23-cv-00313) in support of their motion to dismiss and to strike the FTC’s February complaint (see 2302170050) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego. The complaint alleges a network of companies and individuals is responsible for delivering “tens of millions” of unwanted VoIP and ringless voicemail (RVM) phony debt service robocalls.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “latest bid to dictate the content moderation policies of a private entity" seeks the "remarkable relief" of preliminarily enjoining Google from exercising its discretion to remove videos conveying "dangerous COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation” on its YouTube platform, said Google’s opposition Monday (docket 3:23-cv-03880) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco to Kennedy’s Sept. 25 motion for an injunction.

Best Buy’s arbitration agreement is “unconscionable” and “unenforceable,” said plaintiff Sergio Rodriguez, opposing (docket 8:23-cv-01194) the retailer’s motion to compel arbitration in a fraud class action in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana. Rodriguez’s July fraud lawsuit against Best Buy and Samsung alleges the Samsung QLED 4K TV he bought in 2022 didn’t have the Xcelerator Turbo+, FreeSync and HDMI 2.1 features that were advertised.

Facebook and Twitter violated boxer and political activist Cara Castronuova’s free speech rights, said her Thursday First Amendment lawsuit (1:23-cv-07511) against Meta and Twitter, now X Corp., filed Saturday in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn. The complaint also names President Joe Biden and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.