Security failures leading to a data breach at Asian-American grocery chain Weee allowed hackers to steal personal and financial data from Orange County, California, resident Helen Jia, alleges her Thursday class action (docket 3:23-cv-02314) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The case specifically targets Chinese immigrants like Jia, it said.
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Dish Network failed to properly secure customers’ and employees’ personal information from hackers in a February network outage, alleged a Tuesday class action (docket 1:23-cv-01168) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver.
Game developer King and Activision Blizzard misled contestants about their odds of winning a mobile game tournament to get them to bump up their in-app purchases, said a Tuesday fraud class action (docket 3:23-cv-00314) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Richmond.
The district court order denying Verizon’s motion to compel arbitration in a class action over hidden fees in consumers’ wireless service bills should be reversed, said the carrier in a Monday reply brief (docket 22:16020) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court, challenging the lower court’s denial of Verizon’s motion to compel the disputes of 27 California consumers to arbitration (see 2303270034).
Meta will move for an order to dismiss Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation on Aug. 16 before U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco, said a Monday notice of motion (docket 3:22-cv-03580) and motion to dismiss the class action. The case involves healthcare providers’ use of the Meta Pixel tracking tool on their websites for targeted advertising.
The court should deny defendants Amazon, Audible and Blackstone Audio's motion to dismiss parts of a copyright infringement lawsuit, said plaintiff Teri Woods Publishing (TWP) in a Friday memorandum of law (docket 1:23-cv-00507) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.
Sony has been aware of a shutter failure issue on its Alpha 7 III mirrorless camera (a7 III) since soon after its release in 2017, but it denied coverage outside the one-year limited warranty period, alleged a Saturday fraud class action (docket 4:23-cv-00177) in U.S. District Court for Northern Florida in Tallahassee.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) and Missouri AG Andrew Bailey (R) added a claim for class action certification and removed President Joe Biden from the injunction they seek against nearly 70 governmental officials and departments in their third amended complaint against Biden in (docket 3:22-cv-01213) Friday in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill for Idaho in Coeur D’Alene granted Kochava’s motion to dismiss the FTC's privacy complaint (see 2304070006), with leave to amend, said his Thursday memorandum decision and order (docket 2:22-cv-00377). The FTC can file an amended complaint within 30 days of the order, it said.
Plaintiffs can't establish “imminent, irreparable harm” based on social media companies’ past content moderation decisions, defendant DOJ said Wednesday in its opposition (docket 22-cv-01213) to plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction in a First Amendment lawsuit filed by Missouri and Louisiana in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.