U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson for Northern California in San Francisco denied Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s application for a temporary restraining order and request for urgent discovery in his freedom of speech lawsuit against Google, said her signed order Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-03880). Counsel for the parties appeared at a hearing on the application Monday.
Progress Software (PSC) and Pension Benefits Information (PBI) failed to properly secure and safeguard plaintiff Dana LoGiudici’s personally identifiable information (PII), said a Tuesday class action (docket 1:23-cv-11916) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston. Defendants violated Section 5 of the FTC Act by failing to protect plaintiffs’ PII in a data breach, it said.
Plaintiffs filed a notice of related action “out of an abundance of caution,” in MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation Tuesday before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Plaintiffs Katelin Malo, individually, and as parent and next friend of K.J., a minor, Corrinna Reed and Joann Kindred sued (docket 6:23-cv-01149) Performance Health Technology (PH Tech) this month in a negligence class action stemming from the MOVEit data breach May 30.
J.Crew enables wiretapping of electronic communications between the clothing company and its customers without the recipients' knowledge, said a Tuesday privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-07429) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
Amazon sued a network of alleged piracy websites for selling DVDs that infringe Amazon's copyrights for original works, including The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, said a Tuesday complaint (docket 2:23-cv-06886) in U.S. District Court for Western California in Los Angeles.
VoIP services company XCast Labs denied in a Monday answer (docket 23-cv-03646) and affirmative defenses that it assisted in the delivery of “billions of illegal robocalls” or that it assisted anyone in making telemarketing calls to consumers, as alleged by DOJ in a May Telemarketing Sales Rule (see 2305150021) lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The defendant also filed 12 counterclaims.
As plaintiffs, social networking app Minds Inc., podcaster Tim Pool, satirical news website the Babylon Bee and National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) lack standing to challenge AB-587, California's hate speech law, and their claims fail as a matter of law, said U.S. District Judge Hernan Vera for Central California in Los Angeles Friday. Vera's order (docket 2:23-cv-02705) granted the motion of California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) to dismiss their complaint.
Disney and its 21st Century Fox subsidiary used "nearly every trick in the Hollywood Accounting playbook” to deprive plaintiff TSG Entertainment Finance of “hundreds of millions of dollars,” alleged an Aug. 15 complaint (docket 23ST-cv-19433) in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Two T-Mobile customers allege the carrier’s “gross negligence in hiring, training, and supervising its employees” enabled a SIM card swap that led to a loss of $130,000, said a Wednesday complaint (docket 1:23-cv-06159) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.
The “vast breadth” of centralization plaintiff Bruce Bailey sought in his Friday reply (see 2308140020) means parties in cases associated with MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation that don't name multidistrict litigation (MDL) defendants Progress Software Corp. (PSC), Ipswitch or Pension Benefit Information (PBI), and who aren't monitoring the MDL docket, “had no way of knowing that their cases are at risk of being swept up in a sprawling MDL,” said plaintiff Carlos Harding in a Monday interested party response (docket 3083) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). Harding urged the JPML to deny Bailey’s motion for transfer and centralization of related actions filed July 6.