Snap’s platform is “designed in unsafe ways,” alleged a survival action complaint (docket 4:24-cv-03521) in U.S. District Court for South Carolina in Columbia. The mother of a 13-year-old Sumter, South Carolina, boy who died by suicide brought the complaint.
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Nearly two dozen current and former Lumen Technologies executives and board members breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders and the company by covering up Lumen's ownership of toxic lead cables, alleged a shareholder derivative complaint Tuesday (docket 3:24-cv-00798) in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana.
Despite Dell's assurances that a data breach of its systems doesn’t pose “significant risk” to those affected because of “limited information impacted,” the breach appears to have been “substantially broader,” alleged a negligence class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00647) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas.
IRobot’s representations to investors about the probability of regulatory approval of its purchase by Amazon and the “adequacy” of the company’s internal controls “were far from reality,” alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action Saturday (docket 1:24-cv-11498) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.
Frontier customers are at a “significant risk of identity theft” and other financial harm as a result of an April 13 data breach of the telecom company’s computer systems, alleged a negligence class action Monday (docket 3:24-cv-01418) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.
Netgear breached its contractual obligation as a member of the Wi-Fi Alliance to grant licenses to its patented A dual band spectrum allocation system technology (U.S. Patent No. 7,936,714) on reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) terms when it pursued an International Trade Commission exclusion order against TP-Link routers, alleged TP-Link's breach of contract complaint Monday (docket 5:24-cv-03478) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
Yauheni Dauzhanok and Aesmart deliberately facilitated the sale and distribution of counterfeit and fraudulent products on Amazon, Amazon's fraud complaint alleged Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-00825) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
Information provided to investors by Roblox and four executives in November included “false” statements related to revenue guidance for Q1 2024 and the full fiscal year, alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action (docket 3:24-cv-03484) Monday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The individual defendants are CEO David Baszucki, Chief Financial Officer Michael Guthrie, Chief Product Officer Manuel Bronstein and Chief Partnerships Officer Christina Wootton.
Indiana Wesleyan University lent $1.7 million to Ole Holdings to launch an online education project that would expand IWU’s online offerings into multiple universities in Ethiopia using Ole’s online education platform. However, the project never launched, a fraud suit (docket 1:24-cv-00239) alleged Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern Indiana in Fort Wayne.
Dish Network and Sling TV filed a pair of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints Friday, alleging violations of the anti-trafficking provision of the law, plus the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).