Judge Stays AirTags Case to September to Enable ‘Ongoing’ Mediation
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria for Northern California in San Francisco granted the parties a stay in the AirTags privacy case against Apple until the next case management conference Sept. 22, said his text-only minute entry Friday (docket 3:22-cv-07668). Mediation…
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between the parties is “ongoing,” with the next mediation hearing scheduled for May 12, it said. The judge previously denied the parties’ motion for a long-term stay pending the outcome of their efforts to resolve the dispute through alternative means because he said it would be unfair to potential class members to delay the case for so long at its outset (see 2303300031). The plaintiffs in the case allege the AirTag location transmitter is “the weapon of choice of stalkers and abusers.” They assert their “primary concern” in the litigation is to obtain injunctive relief “that remedies the immediate and ongoing risks to safety caused by the AirTag as it currently operates.” They seek through mediation to modify the AirTags to lessen the alleged threat to stalking victims, they said (see 2304030025).