Rebecca Day

GoodRx has been “surreptitiously packaging and selling” customers’ personal health information as part of a “tactful and concerted action” among online advertising platforms Facebook, Google, and Criteo, alleged a class action Thursday (docket 4:23-cv-01508) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

A trio of Bay Area school districts filed lawsuits against the major social media companies Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco amid a wave of similar suits nationwide alleging Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok are contributing to a growing youth mental health crisis.

Eleven Kentucky school districts and one in Oregon added their names Thursday to the ranks of districts nationwide bringing lawsuits against social media companies for their alleged roles in a growing youth mental health crisis in the U.S.

State court lawsuits in Arkansas and California against social media companies this month are among a wave of actions against Meta and others for their alleged role in a growing mental health crisis in the U.S. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) sued Meta Tuesday for violating the state’s Public Nuisance Law and its Deceptive Trade Practices Act (ADTPA), plus unjust enrichment, said the complaint (docket 57CV-23-47) in Polk County Circuit Court. In California, plaintiffs cited Facebook’s, Instagram’s, Snapchat’s and TikTok’s product “defects.”

Google will present a motion to dismiss a consolidated privacy class action against it May 2, said attorney Benedict Hur in a Tuesday notice of motion to dismiss (docket 4:22-cv-05652) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

A public nuisance and negligence class action (docket 3:23-cv-01643) against social media companies by the Watchung Hills Regional High School District in New Jersey is the latest case poised for transfer, with the recent wave of like-minded cases, to the U.S. Court for the Northern District of California for consolidation with the existing personal injury social media cases, James Cecchi, director of Carella Byrne's class-action practice in Roseland, New Jersey, emailed Communications Litigation Today Tuesday.

Plaintiffs in a November privacy class action against Cox Media admitted in a first amended complaint (1:22-cv-04462) they accessed terms of service -- before filing their privacy class action -- agreeing to resolve all disputes through arbitration, said the company’s Monday motion to compel arbitration in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta

T-Mobile’s Tuesday sur-reply to plaintiffs Craigville Telephone and Consolidated Telephone’s reply in support of their motion for appointment of a pretrial master for discovery was necessary to address “numerous new misleading (if not false) assertions and new arguments,” said the filing (docket 1:19-cv-07190) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

There’s "no basis" for an email sender to sue the provider of an email service “just because some of the sender’s emails were sorted into users’ spam folders,” said Google’s reply Monday (docket 2:22-cv-01904) in U.S. District Court for Eastern California in Sacramento in support of its motion to dismiss the Republican National Committee’s complaint.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Taryn Merkl granted plaintiff Strike 3 Holdings’ motion for discovery, permitting it to serve a subpoena on Verizon Fios for the limited purpose of obtaining the name and address of defendant “John Doe” in a copyright infringement lawsuit, said a Thursday order (docket 1:23-cv-01997) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.