Rebecca Day

Amazon removed a seller breach of contract case (docket 1:23-cv-06549) from New York Supreme Court to the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan Thursday, saying China-based Shenzhen Xingchen Xuanyuan Industrial’s verified complaint is subject to an arbitration agreement.

“Spyware” from software monitoring company Dynatrace “wiretaps” electronic communications of “thousands” of website visitors, secretly observing and recording their “keystrokes, mouse clicks, data entry, and other electronic communications, in real time,” alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-11673) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.

Geolocation data company X-Mode Social tracks and identifies mobile app users in real time and then sells the data “to whoever wants it,” alleges a Tuesday class action (docket 1:23-cv-11651) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.

Google charges advertisers “hefty amounts for the privilege of autoplaying their advertisements into the void,” said a breach of contract class action Wednesday (docket 5:23-cv-03685) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Healthcare payment services company Intellihartx (ITx) waited four months after discovering a data breach to notify patients their personally identifiable information may have been compromised, said two Tuesday class actions in U.S. District Court for Northern Ohio in Toledo.

RCN Telecom Services failed to design, construct, maintain and operate its website to be fully accessible to and independently usable by visually impaired or blind people, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, said a Friday class action (docket 1:23-cv-05543) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.

Location technology platform Foursquare gathers “vast amounts of time-stamped, precise geolocation data” from consumers’ cellphones, then profits by selling their data to other companies, said a Monday privacy class action (docket 3:23-cv-30078) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Springfield.

Defendants Gary Cardone and Monica Eaton’s amended motion to dismiss a fraud complaint should be denied, plaintiffs the FTC and state of Florida responded (docket 8:23-cv-00796 ) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa, saying their claims “easily satisfy the low threshold for defeating a motion to dismiss.”

Four of five opposing plaintiffs “have no desire to have their legal claims tainted by political wrangling or the tabloid atmosphere that has come to accompany national elections,” they said Wednesday in their opposition (docket 3:22-cv-01213) to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motion to consolidate a freedom of speech case with the similar Missouri v. Biden case in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.

By offering over six motions as bases for dismissal, Old Dominion Freight Line filed a “kitchen sink” motion, said plaintiffs John Kararo, Sean Walker, Tri Minh La and Melvyn Caison in their Tuesday response (docket 1:23-cv-02187) to the company’s June motion to dismiss (see 2306200038) their privacy lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. Plaintiffs also seek to file a proposed third amended complaint, the filing said.