Rebecca Day

Plaintiff Ritha Fulmore moved the court to consolidate 10 privacy class actions against Dish Network in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. The Wednesday motion (docket 1:23-cv-01556) includes subsequently filed related actions or cases filed involving similar facts or claims involving the company’s alleged failure to secure plaintiffs’ personally identifiable data in February data breach (see 2306230007).

U.S. District Court Judge Brantley Starr granted EDN Global’s motion for consideration to file a first amended complaint (FAC) in its breach of contract lawsuit (docket 3:23-cv-00355) against AT&T, said his Tuesday order in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas. Plaintiffs articulated a non-conclusory reason it’s necessary -- “to base the complaint on Texas law” -- Starr’s order said. In a separate order, he found "moot" AT&T’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.

A plaintiff in a negligence lawsuit against MOVEit file transfer software parent company Progress Software Corp. (PSC) moved to transfer (MDL No. 3083) 10 related actions in the May 28 data breach to U.S. District Court for Minnesota, said a Friday filing with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

Google’s revised privacy policy “purports to give it ‘permission’ to take anything shared online” to train and improve its artificial intelligence (AI) products, including personal and copyrighted information, said a class action Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-03440) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

With a week to spare before the July 18 termination date of Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard buy, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley for Northern California in San Francisco denied the FTC's motion for a preliminary injunction, ruling in a 53-page opinion Tuesday (docket 23-cv-02880) that the FTC didn't make a strong enough case to block the transaction (see 2307110031).

AT&T Global Services’ facts are “inaccurate” regarding breach of contract, said plaintiff EDN Global in a Thursday brief (docket 3:23-cv-00355) in opposition to defendant’s motion to dismiss in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

The Onix Group failed to secure and safeguard about 320,000 individuals’ personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI) during a March data breach in its healthcare business, said plaintiffs Thomas Jones and Leah Simione in a class action (docket 2:23-cv-02621) Friday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. It's the fourth fraud complaint filed against Onix in less than a month.

T-Mobile on Friday removed a case from New York Supreme Court in Brooklyn, said its notice (docket 1:23-cv-05206) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn. Plaintiff Benjamin Kyle sued T-Mobile and T-Mobile store employees Silvia Hernandez and Emma Nodine, alleging a T-Mobile data breach enabled Hernandez and Nodine to unlawfully access his cell phone’s SIM card with his financial information, social security number and over $30,000 in funds from his Coinbase cryptocurrency account.

The government faces “irreparable harm” with each day a preliminary injunction remains in effect preventing dozens of federal agencies from engaging in “a vast range of lawful and responsible conduct.” So said DOJ’s Thursday evening's memorandum (docket 3:22-cv-01213) in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe in support of the defendants’ motion to stay the injunction, pending appeal to the 5th U.S. Circut Court of Appeals. Judge Terry Doughty, a Donald Trump appointee, imposed the motion in an unusual July 4 ruling (see 2307050042).

Samsung and Best Buy falsely represented that Samsung’s QLED TVs have qualities, characteristics and functionalities they don’t have, alleged a fraud class action (docket 8:23-cv-01194) Monday in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.