Plaintiff Tiffany McDougall’s argument that she shouldn't be compelled to arbitration in a fraud suit against Samsung because the arbitration agreement is unconscionable “is without merit,” said U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield for Southern New York in Manhattan in a Tuesday order (docket 1:23-cv-00168).
Amazon’s market power over sellers creates “artificially high prices across the web,” alleges a Tuesday antitrust class action (docket 2:23-cv-01523) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. Rather than fostering a free and competitive e-commerce economy, “Amazon chose the path of quick and unfettered profits by unlawfully exercising their monopolistic powers in violation of antitrust law,” it said.
A fraudulent Best Buy Geek Squad email enabled defendants to defraud Florida husband and wife plaintiffs of $69,335, said their racketeering and fraud complaint (docket 1:23-cv-23756) Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami. The lawsuit names Zhenzhen Lin, “unknown conspirators,” Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Best Buy.
An unknown threat actor placed Christopher Brown’s personal information on the internet via “misappropriated conduct” on PlayStation and Microsoft services while Brown was playing video games, said the Rochester, New York, pro se plaintiff in a fraud complaint Monday (docket 6:23-cv-06566) against Digital Forensics in U.S. District Court for Western New York in Rochester. Brown sought documentation from Digital Forensics that would help him discover information about the threat actor, it said.
OpenAI moved the court for a preliminary injunction against Open Artificial Intelligence, Inc., enjoining the company and its officers, employees and agents from any and all development, production, promotion, sale and distribution of products or services that use the name “‘OpenAI,’ or any confusingly similar variant, including ‘Open AI’” said its Friday motion (docket 4:23-cv-03918) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
Various interested party responses and notices of related action and oral argument were filed late last week before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) involving Progress Software Corp.’s (PSC) May MOVEit file transfer software data breach, court records show.
Without the copyrighted works of 17 plaintiff authors and a proposed class, OpenAI would have a “vastly different commercial product,” said Rachel Geman of Lieff Cabraser in a Wednesday news release announcing a copyright infringement suit (docket 1:23-cv-08292) brought by 17 authors and the Authors Guild against OpenAI in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. OpenAI copied authors’ works to train their large language models (LLMs) without offering choice or compensation, which “threatens the role and livelihood of writers as a whole,” said Geman, the suit's co-counsel.
Temu failed to secure and safeguard customers’ personal data, enabling hackers to steal their personal and financial data and put that information at “serious and ongoing risk,” alleged a fraud complaint (docket 1:23-cv-06962) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.
The court should dismiss a fraud class action arising from a 2022 LastPass data breach because the plaintiffs lack standing and failed to plead facts sufficient to constitute plausible claims under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), said defendants GoTo Technologies and LastPass in their motion to dismiss Monday (docket 1:22-cv-12047) Monday in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts. The defendants also requested oral argument.
The FTC added three Amazon executives and included “significant new details” in an amended complaint Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00932) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. The details were redacted in its original June complaint.