A Mayo Clinic newsletter customer received a “barrage of unwanted junk mail” after the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research rented or sold information about her subscription purchase to third parties, alleged a privacy class action Tuesday (docket 4:24-cv-00033) in U.S. District Court for Utah in Salt Lake City. The suit alleges Mayo violated Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act (NISNPIA).

A former Maximus sales director deleted company data, “sabotaged its systems, and revoked administrator access of other Maximus employees” without authorization, alleged a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00395) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria.

Indiana’s statewide “buffer law” (HB-1186), making it a misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of police officers on active duty, gives the police “unlimited and unbridled discretion to move all persons away,” said Donald Nicodemus’ opening brief Monday (docket 24-1099) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Montana’s statewide TikTok ban is an “ordinary exercise” of the states’ police power to protect their citizens from deceptive and harmful business practices, said Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) and the Republican AGs of 18 other states in an amicus brief Saturday (docket 24-34) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The brief supports the appeal of Montana AG Austin Knudsen (R) to reverse the district court’s Nov. 20 injunction that blocks him from enforcing SB-419 (see 2312010003).

If ever there were a petition for rehearing en banc that should be granted, it's Cox Communications’ petition in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said Frontier Communications’ amicus brief Monday (docket 21-1168) in support.

American Tower, AT&T and T-Mobile “could easily and with minimal cost” take action to modify their facilities to end plaintiff Marcia Haller’s “debilitating symptoms” while allowing her to still use their telecommunications services, alleged Haller's Americans With Disabilities Act complaint Monday (docket 0:24-cv-00877) in U.S. District Court for Minnesota in Duluth.

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When 23andMe made several announcements about a data breach in October, it didn’t disclose that hackers who infiltrated its computer network “were after the personal information of Jewish and Chinese customers,” alleged a class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-01418) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. 23andMe customer Rudy Thompson filed the complaint.

Dylan Das seeks to recover damages on behalf of himself and other iRobot shareholder class members attributable to the 74% plunge in iRobot’s stock value during the 17-month period in which Amazon and iRobot were working unsuccessfully to win global regulators' approval of Amazon’s $1.7 billion iRobot buy. Das filed his securities fraud class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-02138) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark.

Gas and convenience store chain Speedway required plaintiff Sakara Lindsey to enroll in its third-party biometric system when she was hired in September 2015, alleged her Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) complaint Friday (docket 1:24-cv-01984) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. The Illinois resident was employed by the store through September.