Parties Seek Consolidation of 5 Session Replay Cases Against Carnival
Carnival Corp. asks that plaintiff Erica Mikulsky’s wiretapping class action (see 2303060014) be transferred to U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel for Southern California in San Diego and related to another case, Price v. Carnival Corp. (docket 3:23-cv-00236), which was filed…
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about a month earlier, said its notice Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00404). The Price and Mikulsky cases are related “because they both involve allegations that the use of session replay on Carnival’s website violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act,” said the notice. The plaintiffs in both cases “seek to represent a class of California residents whose information was allegedly collected via the session replay software,” it said. The parties have agreed to seek consolidation of the Price and Mikulsky cases, plus three additional class actions, “asserting similar claims on behalf of residents of other states under those states’ equivalent laws,” it said. The three additional cases are in the process of being transferred or have recently been transferred to the Southern District of California, it said: “Once the cases have been related, the parties have agreed to jointly move for consolidation of these five matters into the lowest-numbered Price docket.”