People should be able to watch films “without the whole world knowing,” said a Video Privacy Protection Act class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00316) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
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.
Marketing firm AddShoppers “illicitly tracks persons across the internet, collects their personal information without consent,” and uses it to send direct solicitations, alleged a Friday class action (docket 2:24-cv-01022) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia against AddShoppers, Nutrisystem and Vivint.
T-Mobile’s response is due Friday to a Roswell, Georgia, motion to appoint Ben Levitan as its substitute RF engineering expert in its long-standing cell tower fight with the carrier, said an order signed Friday (docket 1:10-cv-01464) by U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg for Northern Georgia in Atlanta. The lawsuit turns 14 years old on May 13.
The Night Flight Plus streaming service, which permits viewers to watch throwback TV shows, music videos and movies from the 1980s, has installed tracking pixels on its website that “secretly and surreptitiously send consumers’ viewing activities” to Meta without their consent, alleged plaintiff Jerry Seguin’s Video Privacy Protection Act class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-01354) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
Fourteen plaintiffs represented by Moskowitz Law filed a trio of complaints Thursday in three different jurisdictions alleging sports and entertainment defendants used the now-bankrupt FTX global cryptocurrency exchange to participate in FTX Group’s “massive, multi-billion-dollar global fraud.”
U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian for Eastern Washington in Richland granted Barbara and Everett Knudson's motion to intervene on the side of Walla Walla, Washington, in the city's cell tower dispute with AT&T (see 2401170024), said his signed order Thursday (docket 4:23-cv-05162). The city backed the Knudsons' motion, but AT&T opposed it (see 2402010001).
U.S. Magistrate Judge Brendan Day for New Jersey in Trenton granted seven Belmar, New Jersey, residents' motion to permissively intervene as defendants in Verizon’s small-cells fight with Monmouth County, said his signed memorandum order Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-18091). The county took no position on the motion to intervene, but Verizon opposed it (see 2310240030).
The plaintiffs in a fraud suit against Amazon didn’t receive the benefit of their bargain when the company hiked prices for its Prime Video subscription service in January, alleged their class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00309) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
Charter Communications hires call center vendors that it calls “resellers,” based mostly overseas, who run afoul of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when they sell Spectrum cable and internet services to consumers without Charter's supervision, alleged Frank Novak’s complaint Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-10581) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit.