Gilbert Hale, Linda Hale and Alan Wooten, plaintiffs in Hale v. Genworth Financial, oppose movant Bruce Bailey’s motion to transfer and consolidate all related actions in MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation and transfer them to the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, said their Thursday filing (docket 3083) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
Defendants Maximus, a private contractor that provides appeals services for Medicare, along with Progress Software Corp. (PSC), “maintained the private information of millions of individuals in a negligent manner,” said a fraud class action Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-11939) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.
Chargebacks911’s motion to stay discovery pending a ruling on its amended motion to dismiss should be denied, said the FTC and the Florida attorney general in their Aug. 21 opposition (docket 8:23-cv-00796) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.
Some $1,399 worth of SanDisk solid-state disk drives (SSDs) bought by plaintiff Emilio Pousa are “essentially worthless,” and parent company Western Digital didn't compensate him for his losses, said a Tuesday fraud class action (docket 5:23-cv-04281) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. Pousa names Western Digital and “Does 1-10,” whose identities and involvement in the wrongdoing at issue will be revealed “if and when they become known,” said the complaint.
U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson for Northern California in San Francisco denied Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s application for a temporary restraining order and request for urgent discovery in his freedom of speech lawsuit against Google, said her signed order Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-03880). Counsel for the parties appeared at a hearing on the application Monday.
J.Crew enables wiretapping of electronic communications between the clothing company and its customers without the recipients' knowledge, said a Tuesday privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-07429) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
Progress Software (PSC) and Pension Benefits Information (PBI) failed to properly secure and safeguard plaintiff Dana LoGiudici’s personally identifiable information (PII), said a Tuesday class action (docket 1:23-cv-11916) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston. Defendants violated Section 5 of the FTC Act by failing to protect plaintiffs’ PII in a data breach, it said.
Plaintiffs filed a notice of related action “out of an abundance of caution,” in MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation Tuesday before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Plaintiffs Katelin Malo, individually, and as parent and next friend of K.J., a minor, Corrinna Reed and Joann Kindred sued (docket 6:23-cv-01149) Performance Health Technology (PH Tech) this month in a negligence class action stemming from the MOVEit data breach May 30.
Amazon sued a network of alleged piracy websites for selling DVDs that infringe Amazon's copyrights for original works, including The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, said a Tuesday complaint (docket 2:23-cv-06886) in U.S. District Court for Western California in Los Angeles.
VoIP services company XCast Labs denied in a Monday answer (docket 23-cv-03646) and affirmative defenses that it assisted in the delivery of “billions of illegal robocalls” or that it assisted anyone in making telemarketing calls to consumers, as alleged by DOJ in a May Telemarketing Sales Rule (see 2305150021) lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The defendant also filed 12 counterclaims.