Plaintiffs Gayle Jentz, Andre Lopez, Gwendolyn Smuda, Steven Checchia and Robin Anderson and defendant Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) oppose plaintiff Bruce Bailey’s July motion for transfer and centralization of cases related to MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation to the district of Minnesota, said their Friday response (docket 3083) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML).
Google moved the court Thursday to compel third-party Havas Media Group to comply with its two "identical subpoenas" to provide documents for antitrust lawsuits about its digital advertising business, said the filing (docket 3:23-mc-03007) in U.S. District Court for Central Illinois in Springfield. The ad agency doesn't consent to the motion, which Google issued as part of its effort to defend against “multiple antitrust lawsuits,” Google said.
The FTC finalized an order with 1Health.io that settles allegations the genetic testing firm left consumers’ sensitive genetic and health data unsecured, deceived customers’ about their ability to get data deleted and changed its privacy policy “retroactively without adequately notifying consumers and obtaining their consent,” said the FTC in a Thursday news release.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court’s ruling dismissing a chiropractic office’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint and remanded the case for further proceedings, in a Wednesday decision (docket 22-1279).
U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco denied Meta’s motion to dismiss claims it violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and of breach of contract and unjust enrichment, and he granted the motion with leave to amend other claims in the John Doe v. Meta privacy class action, said his Thursday order (docket 3:22-cv-03580).
Plaintiff Bruce Bailey anticipates the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation will rule “sometime in October” on his motion to transfer all related actions involving the Progress Software Corp. (PSC) May data breach to U.S. District Court for Minnesota, said his Wednesday status report (docket 3083) before the JPML. Bailey’s July motion to transfer said PSC bears responsibility for a late May data breach in which data of over 15 million people was stolen as part of a security breach by Russian ransomware group CL0P.
In light of the agreement in principle that Google just reached with 20 named individual consumers and all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, to settle the consolidated Play Store antitrust litigation, the parties want U.S. District Judge James Donato for Northern California in San Francisco to vacate the Nov. 6 trial date and all pretrial deadlines and pending motions, said their stipulation and proposed order Tuesday (docket 3:21-cv-05227).
Verizon agreed to pay a $4.09 million civil penalty, including $2.73 million in restitution, to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that Verizon Business Network Services failed to completely satisfy certain cybersecurity controls in connection with the Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Service (MTIPS) it provided to federal agencies, said DOJ Tuesday.
Amazon sued Kamryn Russell and other entities operating Amazon selling accounts for facilitating the sale of counterfeit luxury fashion goods, said its Wednesday complaint (docket 2:23-cv-01375) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
The amended breach of contract complaint from EDN Global and CEO Jerome Edmondson against AT&T and three of its employees fails for three reasons, said AT&T’s reply Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00355) in support of its motion to dismiss the complaint with prejudice for failure to state a claim.