As plaintiffs, social networking app Minds Inc., podcaster Tim Pool, satirical news website the Babylon Bee and National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) lack standing to challenge AB-587, California's hate speech law, and their claims fail as a matter of law, said U.S. District Judge Hernan Vera for Central California in Los Angeles Friday. Vera's order (docket 2:23-cv-02705) granted the motion of California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) to dismiss their complaint.
Disney and its 21st Century Fox subsidiary used "nearly every trick in the Hollywood Accounting playbook” to deprive plaintiff TSG Entertainment Finance of “hundreds of millions of dollars,” alleged an Aug. 15 complaint (docket 23ST-cv-19433) in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Two T-Mobile customers allege the carrier’s “gross negligence in hiring, training, and supervising its employees” enabled a SIM card swap that led to a loss of $130,000, said a Wednesday complaint (docket 1:23-cv-06159) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.
The “vast breadth” of centralization plaintiff Bruce Bailey sought in his Friday reply (see 2308140020) means parties in cases associated with MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation that don't name multidistrict litigation (MDL) defendants Progress Software Corp. (PSC), Ipswitch or Pension Benefit Information (PBI), and who aren't monitoring the MDL docket, “had no way of knowing that their cases are at risk of being swept up in a sprawling MDL,” said plaintiff Carlos Harding in a Monday interested party response (docket 3083) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). Harding urged the JPML to deny Bailey’s motion for transfer and centralization of related actions filed July 6.
Despite Amazon’s efforts to combat fake reviews, those reviews persist through schemes like those of ProAmazonService that offer free products in exchange for five-star reviews, said Amazon's Aug. 10 lawsuit (docket 23-2-14891-6) in Washington Superior Court in King County.
X implemented software to police pornographic and other “not-safe-for-work” images uploaded to Twitter without adequately informing individuals who interacted with the social media platform “that it collects and/or stores their biometric identifiers in every photograph containing a face that is uploaded to Twitter,” alleges a Monday complaint (docket 1:23-cv-05449) in Cook County Circuit Court, Chancery division, Chicago. X, formerly known as Twitter, did so in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), alleged the complaint.
Experian will pay $650,000 to settle charges it sent consumers unsolicited email without offering them a way to opt out, the agency said Monday. “Signing up for a membership doesn’t mean you’re signing up for unwanted email, especially when all you’re trying to do is freeze your credit to protect your identity,” said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection.
FunPlus falsely advertises price discounts for in-game purchases and carries out other “deceptive and unfair business practices” in its Guns of Glory: Lost Island (GOG) mobile game, said a Monday class action (docket 3:23-cv-04122) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. Plaintiff Loren Kelly, a California resident, alleges violations of California’s Unfair Competition and False Advertising laws and Consumers Legal Remedies Act.
Tile’s partnership with Amazon’s Sidewalk network “expanded the reach and efficacy of the Tile tracker" and “exponentially magnified the danger posed to victims,” said a class action Monday (docket 3:23-cv-04119) against Tile, its parent company Life360 and Amazon in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
The plaintiffs' allegations of actual identity theft in the Samsung data breach multidistrict litigation are “implausible, insufficiently pled, and not a cognizable injury absent economic loss,” said Samsung’s notice Friday (docket 1:23-md-03055) of its motion to dismiss in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Camden.