Amazon and two subsidiaries sued China resident Li Qiang, Shenzhen Yinxi Electronic Commerce and “John Doe” defendants for trademark infringement of Amazon Fire TV remote controls, said a Monday lawsuit (docket 2:23-cv-01060) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
U.S. consumers unknowingly have been transmitting sensitive financial information to Google when they file their taxes online on H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer, said a privacy class action (docket 5:23-cv-03527) Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
If allowed to go into effect, SB-396, Arkansas’ social media age verification law (see 2307100005), will require all users -- including adults -- to verify their age before they can access their social media accounts, or create new ones, said a Friday amici curiae brief (docket 5:23-cv-05105) filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in support of NetChoice’s motion for preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Plaintiff Jane Doe had notice that Kaiser Permanente used third-party software to collect certain website information, said defendant Microsoft Thursday in its motion to dismiss (docket 2:23-cv-00718) a privacy class action against it and Qualtrics in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
U.S. District Court Judge Brantley Starr granted EDN Global’s motion for consideration to file a first amended complaint (FAC) in its breach of contract lawsuit (docket 3:23-cv-00355) against AT&T, said his Tuesday order in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas. Plaintiffs articulated a non-conclusory reason it’s necessary -- “to base the complaint on Texas law” -- Starr’s order said. In a separate order, he found "moot" AT&T’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.
Plaintiff Ritha Fulmore moved the court to consolidate 10 privacy class actions against Dish Network in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. The Wednesday motion (docket 1:23-cv-01556) includes subsequently filed related actions or cases filed involving similar facts or claims involving the company’s alleged failure to secure plaintiffs’ personally identifiable data in February data breach (see 2306230007).
A plaintiff in a negligence lawsuit against MOVEit file transfer software parent company Progress Software Corp. (PSC) moved to transfer (MDL No. 3083) 10 related actions in the May 28 data breach to U.S. District Court for Minnesota, said a Friday filing with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
Google’s revised privacy policy “purports to give it ‘permission’ to take anything shared online” to train and improve its artificial intelligence (AI) products, including personal and copyrighted information, said a class action Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-03440) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
With a week to spare before the July 18 termination date of Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard buy, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley for Northern California in San Francisco denied the FTC's motion for a preliminary injunction, ruling in a 53-page opinion Tuesday (docket 23-cv-02880) that the FTC didn't make a strong enough case to block the transaction (see 2307110031).
T-Mobile on Friday removed a case from New York Supreme Court in Brooklyn, said its notice (docket 1:23-cv-05206) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn. Plaintiff Benjamin Kyle sued T-Mobile and T-Mobile store employees Silvia Hernandez and Emma Nodine, alleging a T-Mobile data breach enabled Hernandez and Nodine to unlawfully access his cell phone’s SIM card with his financial information, social security number and over $30,000 in funds from his Coinbase cryptocurrency account.