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The English High Court offers limited routes to bring “opt-out” group claims but, in recent years, funded claimants have attempted to bring representative actions under CPR 19.8 at a notable rate. The rule has been available,...more
With the rise of litigation funding of group actions, there has been an increasing use of representative actions by Claimants in recent years. In turn, Defendants are challenging this and the Courts are scrutinising cases in...more
In the entertainment industry, Sony Music asserted that AI companies don’t have permission to use its recording artists’ works for AI training. In response to the industry’s concerns over the use of AI, members of Congress...more
A California federal judge recently denied Google’s motion to arbitrate a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged that Google violated privacy statutes by concealing the fact that Google-Assistant-enabled devices could...more
On April 17, a group of five state attorneys general (AG) and Google filed briefs defending the proposed $700 million settlement agreement reached in three antitrust suits brought against Google....more
A federal judge in the Northern District of California delivered a blow to a potential class action lawsuit against Google over its ad auction practices. The lawsuit, which allegedly involved tens of millions of Google...more
On April 4, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied the certification of a class action lawsuit from potentially tens of millions of Google account holders against Google....more
Google has agreed to pay a whopping $155M to resolve a government investigation and a class action lawsuit stemming from its use of location data, including claims that it stored and collected consumers’ location-related...more
In July, Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) agreed to a $68.5 million class-action biometric privacy settlement in connection with the company’s alleged violation of Illinois’ Biometric Information...more
Medtronic Minimed, Inc. and Minimed Distribution Corp. (“Medtronic”) were sued in a class action complaint in the Central District of California on August 30, 2023, by users of Medtronic’s InPen® system. The lawsuit alleges...more
On August 28, 2023, two photographers filed a petition for rehearing en banc, urging the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its recent decision in Hunley v. Instagram, which held that Instagram could not be held liable for secondary...more
The Seventh Circuit recently rejected a series of class action claims against Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center alleging that the medical center improperly sold patient health information to the tech giant,...more
FTC Lays Out Some AI Ad Essentials - But specific guidance isn’t here yet, so...let’s be careful out there....more
In a groundbreaking decision, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it was diagnosing GoodRx’s use of tracking pixel codes and analytics, its digital strategy, as not only an unfair or deceptive act or abusive practice...more
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology promising to disrupt how artwork is created, software is developed, and text is written. This disruption brings with it a host of new legal questions surrounding...more
A recent string of lawsuits filed against large companies including a major movie studio, a professional sports league, CNN, HuffingtonPost.com, ESPN and Buzzfeed have returned the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA)...more
Cy pres-only class action settlements are alive and well in the Ninth Circuit, where a unanimous panel of the court recently affirmed a settlement that provides no monetary relief whatsoever to the class, but awarded millions...more
On 10 November 2021, the Supreme Court dismissed the United Kingdom’s first ever “opt-out” class action brought outside of the competition law sector, in Lloyd v Google LLC. The claim, seeking an award of damages of around £3...more
The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, its highest court, blocked a bid for a $4.3 billion class action against Google over claims the company violated the country’s Data Protection Act (DPA). The claimants alleged that Google...more
This year has seen further record GDPR fines levied by Data Protection Authorities, however, a second “under the radar” risk exists—namely, being sued for damages. Today we saw a sea-change case (Lloyd v Google) ruling by...more
After months of litigation, Zoom Video Communications has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a proposed class action pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California....more
While Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act continues to face significant calls for reform or even elimination, the recent Coffee v. Google case illustrates that Section 230 continues to provide broad protection to...more
On April 27, 2021, a class action lawsuit was filed against Google, Inc. (“Google”) alleging that the Google-Apple Exposure Notification System (“GAEN”) – the company’s COVID-19 contact tracking app – contained a flaw that...more
his week sees a key hearing before the UK Supreme Court in the case of Lloyd v Google, an event long awaited by those familiar with data protection law proceedings in Europe. The case concerns the so-called “safari...more
Riddle me this: Is a document that resides on your network and which you embed in an email via a hyperlink the functional equivalent of an attachment to that email? Magistrate Judge Katherine H. Parker, in a recent...more