Ill. Plaintiff, TikTok Agree to Stay Proceedings Pending Outcome of MDL Action
Plaintiff Melanie Tado and TikTok parent ByteDance submitted a motion (1:23-cv-01430) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago Monday to stay all proceedings and deadlines in their action, pending resolution of similar proceedings before the U.S. Judicial Panel…
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on Multidistrict Litigation that could affect the venue in which their case will proceed. Cook County, Illinois, plaintiff Tado alleged in a complaint this month that TikTok violated the Federal Wire Tap Act, intercepting her communications when she used its in-app browser to communicate with third-party websites (see 2303080049) by using JavaScript code it inserted to record every mouse movement, click, keystroke, URL visited and other electronic communication. Also this month, defendants filed a notice of Tado as a potential tag-along action to an existing MDL proceeding (MDL No. 2948) in the same district, currently pending before Chief Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer. TikTok and ByteDance have similar notices in 16 related cases in U.S. courts. In addition to the pending proceedings in MDL No. 2948, a plaintiff in Recht v. TikTok (docket 2:22-cv-08613) filed a motion in December to consolidate that action and other related cases into a new MDL in the U.S. Central District of California, the motion said.