Rebecca Day

Some $1,399 worth of SanDisk solid-state disk drives (SSDs) bought by plaintiff Emilio Pousa are “essentially worthless,” and parent company Western Digital didn't compensate him for his losses, said a Tuesday fraud class action (docket 5:23-cv-04281) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. Pousa names Western Digital and “Does 1-10,” whose identities and involvement in the wrongdoing at issue will be revealed “if and when they become known,” said the complaint.

Amazon sued a network of alleged piracy websites for selling DVDs that infringe Amazon's copyrights for original works, including The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, said a Tuesday complaint (docket 2:23-cv-06886) in U.S. District Court for Western California in Los Angeles.

Progress Software (PSC) and Pension Benefits Information (PBI) failed to properly secure and safeguard plaintiff Dana LoGiudici’s personally identifiable information (PII), said a Tuesday class action (docket 1:23-cv-11916) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston. Defendants violated Section 5 of the FTC Act by failing to protect plaintiffs’ PII in a data breach, it said.

J.Crew enables wiretapping of electronic communications between the clothing company and its customers without the recipients' knowledge, said a Tuesday privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-07429) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Plaintiffs filed a notice of related action “out of an abundance of caution,” in MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation Tuesday before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Plaintiffs Katelin Malo, individually, and as parent and next friend of K.J., a minor, Corrinna Reed and Joann Kindred sued (docket 6:23-cv-01149) Performance Health Technology (PH Tech) this month in a negligence class action stemming from the MOVEit data breach May 30.

VoIP services company XCast Labs denied in a Monday answer (docket 23-cv-03646) and affirmative defenses that it assisted in the delivery of “billions of illegal robocalls” or that it assisted anyone in making telemarketing calls to consumers, as alleged by DOJ in a May Telemarketing Sales Rule (see 2305150021) lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The defendant also filed 12 counterclaims.

As plaintiffs, social networking app Minds Inc., podcaster Tim Pool, satirical news website the Babylon Bee and National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) lack standing to challenge AB-587, California's hate speech law, and their claims fail as a matter of law, said U.S. District Judge Hernan Vera for Central California in Los Angeles Friday. Vera's order (docket 2:23-cv-02705) granted the motion of California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) to dismiss their complaint.

Disney and its 21st Century Fox subsidiary used "nearly every trick in the Hollywood Accounting playbook” to deprive plaintiff TSG Entertainment Finance of “hundreds of millions of dollars,” alleged an Aug. 15 complaint (docket 23ST-cv-19433) in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Two T-Mobile customers allege the carrier’s “gross negligence in hiring, training, and supervising its employees” enabled a SIM card swap that led to a loss of $130,000, said a Wednesday complaint (docket 1:23-cv-06159) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.

X implemented software to police pornographic and other “not-safe-for-work” images uploaded to Twitter without adequately informing individuals who interacted with the social media platform “that it collects and/or stores their biometric identifiers in every photograph containing a face that is uploaded to Twitter,” alleges a Monday complaint (docket 1:23-cv-05449) in Cook County Circuit Court, Chancery division, Chicago. X, formerly known as Twitter, did so in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), alleged the complaint.