Motion Seeks to Relate Multiple Privacy Class Actions vs. Apple
An administrative motion Thursday asked the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose to consider whether two privacy class actions against Apple should be related to the first case, Libman v. Apple (docket 5:22-cv-07069), filed Nov. 10. Lynch…
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Carpenter law offices filed the motion and represents plaintiffs Dorothy Teixeira and Francis Barrott in the separate class actions (dockets 5:23-cv-00617 and 5:23-cv-00618) the law firm filed on their behalf Feb. 10 (see 2302130043). All three cases reside in the San Jose court but are assigned to three different judges. The claims in all three lawsuits “are based on Apple’s harvesting of vast troves of its customers’ user data from mobile devices without its customers’ knowledge or consent,” said the motion. “Both the Teixeira and Barrott actions involve the same causes of action and the same underlying allegations of misconduct as the Libman action,” it said. Litigating the cases separately “would create a significant risk of duplicative labor and expenses, as well as conflicting results,” it said. “Other similar cases are pending before other judges in this district and in other district courts which would meet the test for relatedness under Local Rule 3-12.” Lynch Carpenter counsel in the Teixeira and Barrott actions “has been in communication with defense counsel, as well as plaintiffs’ counsel in the other related actions, and is working collaboratively with such counsel to have all cases transferred and related to this action,” said the motion.