Certain beauty products sold on Amazon Marketplace, “facilitated by Amazon,” use plaintiff Johnnetta Clemons’ image “to falsely promote and advertise” products as fulfilled by Amazon, said a trademark infringement lawsuit (docket 6:23-cv-02247) that Amazon removed Monday from the 9th Judicial Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida, to U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Orlando.
A California state appeals court ruling in Liapes v. Facebook (docket A164880) would make it unlawful to direct online information and advertisements to the people most likely to be interested in them, said NetChoice in an amicus letter Monday to the California Supreme Court, urging it to review the case.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) refuses to provide direct internet connections via “peering,” linking its network to network optimization service provider Subspace and similar competitors, said an antitrust complaint (docket 2:23-cv-01772) filed Saturday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
Defendant Smartbiz Telecom hasn’t met its burden to show that it's entitled to judgment as a matter of law, said the office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) in its response Friday (docket 1:22-cv-23945) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami to Smartbiz’s Sept. 28 motion for summary judgment in the state's robocalling case against the VoIP provider (see 2309290007). Making or initiating calls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) doesn't "turn on an entity’s status” under FCC regulations, it said.
For years, 2K Games has refused to refund gamers, including children, for their unused in-game currency, alleges a fraud class action Friday (docket 3:23-cv-05961 ) vs. 2K and Take-Two Interactive Software in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
Plaintiffs seek to resurrect five claims in their consolidated complaint against Meta in In Re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation, but they “have failed to remedy the defects” the court identified in its September order (see 2309080055), said the Facebook parent’s motion to dismiss (docket 3:22-cv-03580) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
A consolidated class action complaint (docket 1:23-cv-01168), filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver over Dish Network’s February data breach, added violations of Virginia and Wisconsin state laws to negligence, breach of contract, unjust enrichment and violations of the FTC Act and North Carolina Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
A day after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for Northern California denied social media defendants’ motion to dismiss a negligence lawsuit against them for their alleged role in fueling a youth mental health crisis in the U.S., Facebook and Instagram parent Meta blogged in favor of federal legislation “to create simple, efficient ways for parents to oversee their teens’ online experiences.”
Speakers from different advocacy groups clashed during an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation webinar Wednesday over what controls the courts and lawmakers should place on social media companies amid what the multitude of pending lawsuits claim is a youth mental health crisis fueled by internet addiction.
Cognizant Technology’s human content moderation system, designed to remove offensive social media content, causes or contributes to numerous mental and physical illnesses, injuries and conditions, for individuals subjected to “long-term unmitigated exposure to such content,” alleged a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 8:23-cv-02607) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.