Rebecca Day

Missouri and Louisiana are likely to succeed on the merits of their First Amendment claim against defendants from the White House, Surgeon General's office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FBI, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and State Department, said U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty, a President Donald Trump appointee, in a 155-page Fourth of July memorandum ruling (docket 3:22-cv-01213).

Two Friday class actions in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida filed by Eisenband Law allege violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA).

Two authors’ copyrighted materials were ingested and used to train ChatGPT without their consent, alleged a class action Wednesday (4:23-cv-03223) against OpenAI in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

Defendants OpenAI and Microsoft’s “disregard for privacy laws is matched only by their disregard for the potentially catastrophic risk to humanity,” said 16 plaintiffs in a Wednesday privacy class action (docket 3:23-cv-03199) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco (see 2306280052).

The personal information of over 181,000 individuals was compromised in a hacking incident due to data security failures at Great Valley Cardiology, alleged a class action (docket 3:23-cv-01050) Friday in U.S. District Court for Middle Pennsylvania in Scranton.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) joined 25 state AGs supporting the FTC’s proposed improvements to its Negative Option Rule that’s designed to simplify consumers' process when canceling unwanted subscriptions.

Publishers Clearing House (PCH) agreed to a proposed court order requiring it to pay $18.5 million to consumers who “spent money and wasted their time” on the company’s sweepstakes, said an FTC news release that was embargoed prior to release of the Monday complaint (docket 2:23-cv-04735) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Central Islip. The proposed order also requires the company to overhaul the sweepstakes entry and sales processes and to stop “surprise fees."

Buena Vista Medical Services solicited Florida physician Marc Sharfman and at least 40 other recipients by fax machine “without compliant opt-out language,” alleged a Monday privacy class action (docket 6:23-cv-01176) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Orlando.

Hospitals and networks in multistate health services company Tenet Healthcare “disregarded the privacy rights of millions of visitors to and users of their websites,” alleges a Friday class action (2:23-cv-05021) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.

Facebook’s conduct was “discriminatory and exacerbated the persisting effects of historic discrimination,” said The Free Press Friday, hailing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ 3-1 reversal of a lower court’s ruling in a civil rights case that Facebook was immune from liability under Section 230 protection of the Communications Act.