A Jane Doe plaintiff who sued PHE, owner of adult products website Adam & Eve, for violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) moved Friday (docket 2:24-cv-01065) to remand her class action to Los Angeles County Superior Court from U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. Doe originally filed her action alleging PHE disclosed her private and protected sexual information, plus her IP address, in the Central California district court Sept. 25. The case was dismissed and Doe then added Google to the lawsuit and filed in state court; Google removed the case to district court last month (see 2402080070). Doe, a Los Angeles resident, alleges PHE caused Google to learn the contents of her private and protected sexual information without notifying her and without her consent, and that Google violated CIPA each time it “read, learned from, and/or utilized” that information without her consent. Both defendants violated CIPA by operating under an agreement under which PHE installed Google Analytics to disclose Doe’s protected sexual information “in exchange for payment or another form of consideration,” says the complaint. The putative class comprises California residents solely, satisfying the local controversy exception for remand to state court, said the motion, and Google is also a citizen of California. The plaintiff and class members seek statutory damages of $5,000 for each time Google “read, learned the contents of” and used information obtained from a message or communication between PHE and the class without consent. Google’s potential exposure in the action is $5 million or more, it said.
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.
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.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 8, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
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.”
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on melamine from Germany, India, Japan, Qatar, the Netherlands and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as its countervailing duty investigation on melamine from Germany, India, Qatar, and Trinidad and Tobago (C-428-853, C-533-925, C-518-002, C-274-811). The investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2023.
Suspension of liquidation and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements take effect March 11 for imports of aluminum extrusions from China (C-570-159), Indonesia (C-560-841), Mexico (C-201-861) and Turkey (C-489-851), after the Commerce Department found illegal subsidization in preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations.
Counsel for parties in a fraud suit involving Amazon Prime Video were unable to resolve their issues following Amazon’s March 1 motion to consolidate plaintiff Wilbert Napoleon’s case with In re Amazon Service Fee Litigation, said Amazon Wednesday in a motion (docket 2:24-cv-00186) for temporary stay in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 7, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 6, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.