Rebecca Day

Vox’s lawsuit alleging Gage Technologies conspired with two of its former employees to steal trade secrets should be dismissed because the plaintiff failed to adequately plead trade secret misappropriation or to identify trade secrets with “sufficient particularity,” said defendants' Tuesday motion (docket 3:22-cv-09135) to dismiss in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

T-Mobile misled its wireless “sub-dealers” when it announced that “hundreds of stores” would be opened after its 2020 Sprint buy, alleged five such sub-dealer plaintiffs in a class action Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-1582) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn. T-Mobile instead embarked on a "concealed and undisclosed corporate strategy" to eliminate the sub-dealers nationally, alleged the plaintiffs.

Scammers transferred out more than $24,000 from a T-Mobile customer’s Coinbase account in a “SIM swap scam,” alleged a Monday class action (docket 2:23-cv-271) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

GoodRx emailed customers Wednesday advising them the FTC alleged the company shared their personal identifiable information July 2017-April 2020 without their permission. Information included details about drug and health conditions customers searched for and their prescription medications. “We shared this information with third parties, including Facebook,” said the prescription discount drug firm. In some cases, GoodRx used the information to target customers with health ads, it said. “The Federal Trade Commission alleges we broke the law by sharing your health information without your permission,” it said, and to resolve the case, GoodRx agreed to an FTC order that it would tell third parties like Facebook to delete information it received from GoodRx, never share customers’ health information with third parties for advertising purposes, or without their permission, and put in place a comprehensive privacy program. The program will have “heightened procedures and controls” to protect personal and health information, and an auditor will review the program every two years for 20 years, it said. The FTC last month ordered GoodRx to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty for failing to notify consumers and others of its unauthorized disclosures of consumers’ personal health information to Facebook, Google and other companies in violation of its health breach notification rule. A class action filed last week in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco alleges GoodRx’s representations that it complies with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy rules and follows the Digital Advertising Alliance “Sensitive Data Principle” are false (see Ref:2302220043).

Verizon Wireless engages in “bait-and-switch” schemes by prominently advertising flat monthly rates on postpaid plans and then charging higher rates after customers sign up for service, alleges a Monday fraud class action (docket 3:23-cv-01138) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Trenton.

A landowner who installed a padlock at the entrance of a cell tower site in Franklin County, Ohio, is in breach of a lease to STC Two, alleged a Friday complaint (docket (2:23-cv-00764) filed by STC Two and Global Signal in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus.

JetBlue’s use of FullStory’s session replay codes during user browser sessions constitutes “looking over the shoulder” of website visitors, a violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, said a Friday class action (docket 3:23-cv-00361) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s statements in an April 14 shareholder letter about the company’s “aggressive expansion efforts” to build out its fulfillment network to meet increasing demand for faster delivery were “materially false and misleading,” alleged shareholder and Pennsylvania resident Jay Smith in a complaint Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-00196). The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for Delaware in Wilmington, named the company and 19 of its executives and/or board members who made statements on earnings calls and congressional testimony or signed SEC financial documents.

Amid a “full spectrum of views” on antitrust enforcement, “we all seem to agree that competition is the goal,” Doha Mekki, principal deputy assistant attorney general in DOJ's Antitrust Division, told a New York University Law School conference Friday on antitrust and big tech in the 21st century.

Meta uses identifiers to match health data it collects with Facebook users and encourages healthcare partners to upload patient lists for ad targeting, alleged Tuesday's consolidated class action against the company in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco (docket 3:22-cv-03580).