Since AT&T announced Saturday that “data-specific fields” were part of a data set involving 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers released on the dark web March 16, nine negligence class actions have been filed in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas, including five by Kendall Law.
CTIA still disagrees with a Kentucky 911 law that was upheld in court Friday, the wireless industry association said Tuesday. The U.S. District Court for Eastern Kentucky ruled that federal law doesn’t preempt the state from requiring Lifeline providers to directly pay state 911 fees. Kentucky’s policy is constitutional and doesn’t frustrate Congress’ universal service objectives, the court said.
The personally identifiable information (PII) of some 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former AT&T customers was compromised in a data breach last month due to the carrier's failure to implement "adequate and reasonable" cybersecurity "procedures and protocols,” a negligence class action alleged Saturday (docket 3:24-cv-00757) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas. It was one of at least eight filed over the breach in the Texas court since Saturday.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cast iron soil pipe from China (A-570-079/C-570-080), steel wheels from China (A-570-082/C-570-083) and utility scale wind towers from China (A-570-981/C-570-982). The agencies also will review the AD orders on large residential washers from Mexico (A-201-842) and on utility scale wind towers from Vietnam (A-552-863), Commerce said in a notice April 1.
The Commerce Department announced April 1 the opportunity to request administrative reviews by April 30 for producers and exporters subject to 36 antidumping duty orders and 13 countervailing duty orders with April anniversary dates.
Though OnStar “ostensibly provides” Wi-Fi and location information for emergency services in case of an accident, customers were not aware the subscription in-vehicle security and communications service was “tracking data points about their driving” and sending it to their auto insurance companies to justify a rate increase, said a privacy class action (docket 2:24-cv-10804) Friday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit.
Suspension of liquidation and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements take effect April 1 for imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador (C-331-806), India (C-533-921) and Vietnam (C-552-838), after the Commerce Department found countervailable subsidization in preliminary determinations in its ongoing CV duty investigations.
Apple’s anticompetitive conduct forced Louis Levine and class members to suffer “overcharge damages,” alleged his class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-04284) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. The class period covers iPhone individuals or entities that bought iPhones directly from Apple, other than for resale, from March 2020 to the present.
Erica Cardenas seeks injunctive relief and statutory damages to stop debt relief company Creditors Relief from violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited text messages to phone numbers that are listed on the national do not call registry, said her class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-04214) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. A resident of Chula Vista, California, Cardenas listed her number on the national DNC registry Nov. 9, yet she received at least six text messages from Creditors Relief beginning Jan. 15 promoting its debt relief services, the class action said. Creditors Relief “specifically lists cold calling as a job requirement in its job listings,” it added. Former Creditors Relief employees “have posted complaints about the poor quality of leads they were given to call,” it said. Consumers also have posted complaints on the Better Business Bureau website about the unsolicited calls and text messages they received from Creditors Relief, it said. Moreover, the plaintiff has never done business with the company or consented to be called, said her class action. The unauthorized solicitation text messages that Cardenas received from Creditors Relief or on its behalf have harmed her “in the form of annoyance, nuisance, and invasion of privacy,” it said. The text messages have “occupied her phone line, and disturbed the use and enjoyment of her phone,” it said.
The plaintiffs’ opposition to Banner Health’s motion to dismiss their consolidated privacy complaint gives the "false impression” that Banner “surreptitiously discloses” the contents of their “actual medical communications or records to third parties” for profits, said Banner's reply Monday (docket 2:23-cv-00985) in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Phoenix in support of its motion to dismiss. The plaintiffs instead “conflate Banner’s public website with its patient portal,” the opposition said. Cheryl McCulley’s class action, combined with two similar actions in November (see 2311150002), allege Banner installed Meta Pixel and other tracking technologies on its website to “intercept” and send private information to third parties such as Facebook and Google without users’ “informed consent,” in violation of invasion of privacy common law, the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. But plaintiffs’ claims rely on generalized allegations of how they used Banner’s public website, how they received ads relating to their medical conditions after alleging they used the free public websites, and how a “hypothetical website visitor’s browsing activity may have been transmitted to Meta or other third parties,” said the opposition. Their allegations are “merely speculations about what happens when they intentionally search a public website for medical topics,” it said. Plaintiffs “fail to allege a single fact” about how the Pixel was configured on Banner’s patient portal, saying information available on the publicly accessible websites “stands in stark contrast to the personally identifiable patient records and medical histories protected by these statutes.”