Rebecca Day

A plaintiff alleging Redbox violated Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA) is attempting to “walk back his allegations of harm to claim no Article III standing in order to run back to state court,” said Redbox’ Wednesday response (docket 3:23-cv-08760) opposing his May motion to remand the case to state court, after Redbox’ April removal to the U.S. District Court for Northern Florida in Pensacola under the Class Action Fairness Act.

Attorneys for Google requested a pre-motion conference to seek leave to move under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) an order to compel arbitration and stay litigation pending the outcome of arbitration in a fraud case brought by a Pixel 6 smartphone owner in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.

Music distributor DistroKid violated its fiduciary duties and its duties of “good faith and fair dealing,” alleged a Wednesday breach of contract class action (docket 1:23-cv-04776) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. The suit also named artist Raquella “Rocky Snyda” George in a claim for “knowing and material misrepresentations” in her takedown request under section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).

Protecting medical information and making sure it isn't disclosed to unauthorized entities “is vitally necessary to maintain public trust in the healthcare system as a whole,” said a class action (docket 2:23-cv-00985) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Phoenix, alleging multistate healthcare system Banner Health breached its privacy obligations to patients by using tracking technologies on its website.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) can't save the California Legislature’s "handiwork from constitutional scrutiny,” said plaintiffs The Babylon Bee, podcast host Tim Pool, the National Religious Broadcasters and social networking app company Minds, Inc., in a memorandum Monday (docket 2:23-cv-02705) in opposition to Bonta’s motion to dismiss their freedom of speech lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.

Two more negligence class actions were filed last week against Dish Network in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver over the company’s Feb. 23 network outage and resulting data breach.

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation “repeatedly rejected” plaintiffs’ primary basis to vacate conditional transfer order 7 (CTO-7) -- that the transferor court should be allowed to rule on questions of fraudulent misjoinder and remand -- “as an insufficient basis to vacate a conditional transfer order.” So said ByteDance Friday, opposing (docket MDL 3047) in U.S. District Court for Northern California plaintiffs Dean Nasca and Michelle Nasca’s May motion to vacate CTO-7 in Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury.

Dish failed to protect current and former customers’ and employees’ personally identifiable information (PII) from hackers, alleged a class action (1:23-cv-01372) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver.

Video game developer FunPlus advertises former prices to induce players to act quickly to take advantage of limited-time sale prices, alleged a fraud class action Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-02667) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

Amazon subsidiary Ring agreed to refund customers $5.8 million as part of its settlement with the FTC over privacy lapses involving access to video recordings on Ring cameras. DOJ's complaint Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-01549), filed on the FTC's behalf in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges Ring violated the FTC Act by allowing thousands of employees and contractors to access video recordings of customers’ "intimate spaces" without customers’ knowledge or consent.