Rebecca Day

Pollen Mobile, a subsidiary of Pronto.ai, violated federal and California securities laws by selling unregistered securities and expiring gift cards, alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-04023) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed an application (docket 5:23-cv-03880) for a temporary restraining order against Google Wednesday to stop YouTube from using its “’medical misinformation’ policies” to remove videos of Kennedy’s speech "on matters of public concern” during the 2024 presidential campaign. Kennedy filed a First Amendment lawsuit against Google and YouTube (see 2308030049) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco last week involving Google's COVID-19 vaccine misinformation policy.

Seven former Twitter employees sued Twitter and X Corp. Tuesday for discrimination and/or violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) involving their “separations from employment with Twitter during the chaotic days” after Elon Musk bought the company, said a class action (docket 3:23-cv-04016) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

T-Mobile collected from customers a “city license” or "utility” tax it wasn't authorized to collect under ordinances of various Missouri municipalities, alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 4:23-cv-00561) in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri in Kansas City.

A copyright infringement case by Gizmodo Editor-in-Chief Tom Ackerman alleges the Tetris movie “demonstrated the confiscation” of his original work and creation of his book, The Tetris Effect. Chapters and pages of Ackerman's book were “simply adopted from the book to the film,” said the complaint (docket 1:23-cv-06952), filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan,

Several parties filed responses Friday in opposition to consolidation and transfer in MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation (docket 3083) resulting from Progress Software's May data breaches in which the data of over 15 million individuals was reportedly accessed (see 2307120053).

ChatGPT owner OpenAI sued Open Artificial Intelligence and its president, Guy Ravine, to stop the company from “confusing the missions of users of OpenAI’s products into mistakenly believing” the defendants have any connection to, association with or sponsorship by OpenAI, “when, in fact, there is none,” said a complaint Friday (docket 3:23-cv-03918) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. Ravine, a resident of San Francisco, “holds himself out as the president of Defendant Open Artificial Intelligence, Inc.,” said the complaint. Open Artificial Intelligence couldn’t be reached for comment.

Security vulnerabilities that enabled Progress Software Corp.'s (PSC) May data breach existed as far back as 2021, said plaintiffs’ Kim Siflinger of Washington and Randy Kiyabu of California in a Thursday fraud class action (docket 1:23-cv-11782) against PSC and Pension Benefit Information (PBI) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.

AT&T and DirecTV reported, and continue to report, a noncustomer to credit reporting agency Experian for nonpayment of bills he doesn’t owe, alleged plaintiff John Gerling in a Thursday fraud lawsuit (docket CL-23-3024) in Texas County Court in Hidalgo.

Progress Software Corp. (PSC) and Pension Benefit Information (PBI) “owed duties” to plaintiff Rosemary Mosqueda and class members, said a Tuesday class action (docket 0:23-cv-02278) in U.S. District Court for Minnesota about a May 27 data breach affecting PSI’s MOVEit software.