Online education platform company 2U and three executives made materially false and misleading statements and failed to disclose material adverse facts about business operations from February 2022 to February 2024, alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action (docket 8:24-cv-01723) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt.
DirecTV is attempting to “misappropriate” the security system supporting its pay-TV services, alleged system developer Synamedia Wednesday in a trade secrets suit (docket 2:24-cv-04967) in U.S. District Court for Central California.
Summit Health combines patients’ searches for medical information with their protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) and sells it to advertisers without their permission, alleged a privacy class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-06972) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. The suit also names Meta, Google, PubMatic, Microsoft and Magnite.
Nearly two dozen current and former Lumen Technologies executives and board members breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders and the company by covering up Lumen's ownership of toxic lead cables, alleged a shareholder derivative complaint Tuesday (docket 3:24-cv-00798) in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana.
Despite Dell's assurances that a data breach of its systems doesn’t pose “significant risk” to those affected because of “limited information impacted,” the breach appears to have been “substantially broader,” alleged a negligence class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00647) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas.
Microsoft and co-defendant OpenAI filed separate motions Tuesday to dismiss four of the eight counts in an April 30 complaint alleging that the two companies are “purloining” millions of copyrighted newspaper articles without permission and without payment to “fuel the commercialization” of their generative AI products (see 2404300034). Eight newspapers filed that suit.
Snap’s platform is “designed in unsafe ways,” alleged a survival action complaint (docket 4:24-cv-03521) in U.S. District Court for South Carolina in Columbia. The mother of a 13-year-old Sumter, South Carolina, boy who died by suicide brought the complaint.
Education in 2024 “bears very little resemblance to education in previous decades,” and advances in technology have “transformed the pattern of classwork and homework,” said the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition in a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court amicus brief Tuesday (docket 23-60641). The brief backs the FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040).
Information provided to investors by Roblox and four executives in November included “false” statements related to revenue guidance for Q1 2024 and the full fiscal year, alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action (docket 3:24-cv-03484) Monday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The individual defendants are CEO David Baszucki, Chief Financial Officer Michael Guthrie, Chief Product Officer Manuel Bronstein and Chief Partnerships Officer Christina Wootton.
Yauheni Dauzhanok and Aesmart deliberately facilitated the sale and distribution of counterfeit and fraudulent products on Amazon, Amazon's fraud complaint alleged Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-00825) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.