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Fifth Circuit Affirms District Court’s Striking of Class Allegations
On April 21, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, issued a decision in Briskin v. Shopify, Inc. substantially broadening the exercise of personal jurisdiction over online businesses...more
Online retailer Harriet Carter Gifts recently obtained summary judgment from the district court in a class action under Pennsylvania wiretap law. At the heart of this case is the interpretation and application of the...more
Key Takeaways - - At least four courts have now held that retailers using email for marketing are not considered “communication service providers” and therefore are not subject to TUCSRA. - At least five courts have now held...more
Wild, wild, west? Web tracking may be the new frontier in class action litigation. With thousands of lawsuits filed in California and increasingly in other states against organizations, including many who may not realize the...more
In Briskin v. Shopify, Inc., No. 22-15815, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 9410 (9th Cir. Apr. 21, 2025), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that the Canada-based company Shopify, Inc....more
In Potovsky v. Lincoln Benefit Life Co., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of the insureds’ complaint for failure to sufficiently allege damages regarding the denial of a long-term care claim....more
As employers deal with mounting pressure or desire to implement artificial intelligence in the workplace, they should not forget the laws in several states and localities that place limitations on the use and collection of...more
Companies doing business in California continue to face a surge in privacy-related complaints and lawsuits under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a 1960s-era law designed to prevent unlawful telephone...more
Two years ago, we posted about a proposed class action lawsuit that accused Old Navy of spamming consumers with emails that included false or misleading information about the duration of sales. For example, the complaint...more
A Durham County class action asks whether “My Chart,” a widely used portal that medical providers use to communicate with patients about test results, conditions, and treatments should more aptly be labeled “Our Chart.”...more
Topics that we often discuss on this blog are the use of third-party tracking tools and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Less discussed of late, however, is the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which,...more
In two recent rulings, judges in the U.S. Northern District of California have allowed proposed class actions under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to proceed without an allegation of a data breach, departing from...more
Readers of this blog know about the never-ending barrage of consumer privacy litigation commenced against online companies in connection with their collection of consumer data. Several of these cases have recently been filed...more
On March 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against the education technology (EdTech) company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a popular learning management system. The complaint alleges that Instructure...more
Welcome to the “Data Privacy and Cybersecurity” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. Consumer financial services regulators are taking a keen interest in artificial intelligence...more
A federal district court has denied a motion by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. (JJCI) to dismiss a second amended complaint alleging it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by collecting and storing...more
On February 10, 2025, the first class action complaint was filed under Washington state’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”), over a year after the law was passed. See Maxwell v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al., Case No. 2:25-cv-261...more
The enactment of biometric privacy laws is a growing trend across the country. Existing legislation has led to a boon of class action litigation against employers, consumer-facing businesses, and technology companies for...more
Keypoint: In this post: (1) How a privacy policy can defeat a plaintiff’s “delayed discovery” argument; (2) Two CA state courts reject plaintiffs’ allegations concerning personal jurisdiction; (3) Three courts dismiss PR/TT...more
On February 10, 2025, the first class action complaint was filed pursuant to Washington’s MY Health MY Data Act (“MHMDA”), Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 19.373.005 et seq. See Maxwell v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al., Case No. 2:25-cv-261...more
The deluge of lawsuits and demand letters under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has prompted courts to scrutinize CIPA claims more rigorously, including the threshold question of whether CIPA plaintiffs have...more
In 2024, plaintiffs across the United States filed various class action cases related to web tracking technology employed by companies to enhance user experience on their websites and to improve the efficacy of their...more
On February 10, 2025, a Washington state resident filed a lawsuit on behalf of herself and similarly situated individuals against Amazon under the Washington My Health My Data Act (MHMD). This is the first lawsuit brought...more
An online retailer was recently hit with the first class action under Washington’s consumer health data privacy law alleging that it used advertising software attached to certain third-party mobile phone apps to unlawfully...more
The first class action complaint was filed under Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”) on February 10, 2025, more than a year after the law’s passage. When the law passed in April 2023, MHMDA was novel for its broad...more