Amazon sued Kamryn Russell and other entities operating Amazon selling accounts for facilitating the sale of counterfeit luxury fashion goods, said its Wednesday complaint (docket 2:23-cv-01375) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
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The amended breach of contract complaint from EDN Global and CEO Jerome Edmondson against AT&T and three of its employees fails for three reasons, said AT&T’s reply Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00355) in support of its motion to dismiss the complaint with prejudice for failure to state a claim.
Twitter’s termination of software engineer Ethan Sutin was part of a “recent effort to cut costs by any means necessary,” alleges Sutin’s Friday breach of contract complaint against X, formerly Twitter, (docket 23-608806) in California Superior Court in San Francisco.
Advocates of the October 2020 antitrust case by DOJ and 11 states against Google expanded in a Wednesday news briefing on their Friday third-party motion (docket 1:20-cv-03010) for U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta for the District of Columbia to allow a publicly available audio feed of the unsealed portions of the trial. The case, which alleges Google's "exclusionary agreements" cover about 60% of all general internet search queries, with half the remaining queries funneled through Google owned-and-operated properties, is set for trial Tuesday.
A flurry of notices -- for oral argument, related cases and opposition responses -- were filed last week and Monday before the U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation involving the May MOVEit data breach. Cases stem from a May data breach at Progress Software Corp. (PSC) whose MOVEit file transfer software contained a vulnerability that was exploited by Russian ransomware group Clop.
California asserts the Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) is necessary to protect the “health and well-being of minors,” but it “fails to show how the law serves that boundless objective, much less how it is tailored to do so,” said NetChoice Friday in a supplemental brief (docket 5:22-cv-08861) in support of its motion for preliminary injunction against the social media design law, due to take effect in June.
Four class actions filed Thursday and Friday against various defendants involving the Progress Software Corp. (PSC) data breach show the far reach of the late May cyberattack that potentially affected millions of customers, according to complaints.
Meta removed a pro se fraud complaint Thursday to U.S. District Court for New Jersey from the Superior Court of Essex County, New Jersey, brought by a plaintiff who opted out of the $725 million Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Litigation. Deciding the settlement was “inadequate,” plaintiff Aakash Dalal “timely opted out” of the settlement by certified and regular U.S. mail to the settlement administrator “requesting exclusion from the class action," said his June 19 complaint (docket 2:23-cv-13558).
The lower court’s decision in an ad-pricing class action, Cabrera v. Google, that deprived Google of a defense it would have in an individualized action “by applying a different contract interpretation rule,” violates the Rules Enabling Act, said defendant/petitioner Google Tuesday in its petition for leave (docket 23-80077) to appeal a class-certification order before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Fraudulent takedown notices sent to YouTube by Universal Music Group, Sony Music and other labels led to the termination of DJ Erik Mishiyev’s YouTube channel, causing the pro se plaintiff to lose “all his hard work,” alleged Mishiyev's complaint Monday (docket 8:23-cv-01942) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.