Video game companies make their games addictive to young people to maximize profits, alleged a class action (docket 1:24-cv-00064) against Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive Software, Rockstar Games, Microsoft, Mojang Studios, Sony Interactive, Roblox, Nintendo of America and Google, filed Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern Florida in Gainesville.
An April 1 FTC order denying MGM Resorts International's petition to quash a civil investigative demand (CID) “unlawfully deprives MGM of its rights under the Fifth Amendment,” said the hotel chain’s complaint Monday (docket 1:24-cv-01066) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The CID requested information as part of a nonpublic investigation involving MGM's September cyberattack.
The International Trade Commission’s October order preventing Apple from importing its Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches based on allegations of patent infringement by medical device company Masimo -- which doesn’t currently sell its watches in the U.S. -- “creates serious risks for U.S. businesses,” said NetChoice Monday in a news release.
For “many years,” General Motors, OnStar and LexisNexis Risk Solutions have been collecting location, vehicle and personally identifiable information (PII) from OnStar-equipped vehicles and selling “vast amounts” of that data to third parties, alleged a privacy class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-02978) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.
Kevin Sinitski received notification from his credit monitoring company that his personally identifiable information (PII) was involved in a V12Software data breach. The Feb. 15 notice from Credit Wise informed Sinitski of an incident he was unaware of, his class action alleged Thursday (docket 5:24-cv-02171) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
Three trackers collect Buzzfeed consumers’ IP addresses when they visit the entertainment website, without their consent, alleged a privacy class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-02753) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
Wireless internet service provider Bloosurf, valued at $30 million in 2021, has lost "half its customers" and "significant" revenue and cash flow due to T-Mobile's interference, alleged Bloosurf’s complaint Wednesday (docket 8:24-cv-01047) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt in which it seeks $116 million in damages.
Plaintiffs Dean and Michelle Nasca oppose conditional transfer order 30 (CTO-30) in In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Liability Litigation, said their notice of opposition Wednesday (docket 3047) before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The plaintiffs will file a motion to vacate CTO-30, which listed its case against TikTok parent ByteDance and also included tag-along actions Putnam County School District vs. Alphabet Inc. et al and Cumberland County Board of Education vs. Meta Platforms Inc. et al.
Silicon Valley Mechanical (SVM) stored the personally identifiable information (PII) of plaintiff Patrick Brenan and class members “unencrypted, in an Internet-accessible environment” on its network, allowing cybercriminals to access it using an "extraction tool," alleged a negligence class action Wednesday (docket 5:24-cv-02147) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
ESO Solutions’ motion to strike the class allegations in a consolidated class action complaint (CCAC) involving its September data breach is “premature and meritless,” said the plaintiffs’ memorandum of law Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-01557) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin in opposition to ESO’s March 28 motion.