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news.bloomberglaw.com | Christopher Brown
Customers of dismissed their proposed class action alleging the international cruise operator shared their personal information with in violation of state and federal privacy laws. The dismissal comes four months after the plaintiffs and Carnival notified the US District Court for the Southern District of California that they had reached a settlement of the lawsuit. Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel granted the parties’ joint stipulation of dismissal Monday.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Christopher Brown
Cleo Communications Inc. negligently failed to protect the personal information of more than 700,000 current and former students of the Chicago Public Schools that was exposed in a 2024 data breach, a proposed federal class action said. Lead plaintiff Jewanna Ashley alleged that Cleo breached its duties under common law, contract law, industry standards, and state and federal law to implement reasonable and adequate data-security measures and provide timely notice of the incident.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Christopher Brown
An attorney for a Nike USA customer faced skeptical questioning Tuesday from a federal appeals court over the customer’s attempt to revive a lawsuit alleging the company falsely marketed its “Sustainability” line of clothing. The company claimed its clothes in the Sustainability collection were made from recycled and organic materials, but in fact the clothes were made with synthetic materials that were harmful to the environment, plaintiff Maria Ellis alleged. Ellis’s attorney Daniel J.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Christopher Brown
Electronic health records provider Oracle Health Inc. negligently failed to protect patient data that was exposed in a January data breach, a proposed federal class action said.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Christopher Brown
Electronic health records provider Oracle Health Inc. negligently failed to protect patient data that was exposed in a January data breach, a proposed federal class action said.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Christopher Brown
Police warrants seeking records from all cell phones connected to specified cell towers at a particular time—known as “tower-dump” data—violate the Fourth Amendment, a federal judge in Nevada ruled. An order allowing police to access to this kind of mobile-network information is a general warrant that’s forbidden under the US Constitution, Judge Miranda M. Du of the US District Court for the District of Nevada said April 11.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Christopher Brown
Police warrants seeking records from all cell phones connected to specified cell towers at a particular time—known as “tower-dump” data—violate the Fourth Amendment, a federal judge in Nevada ruled. An order allowing police to access to this kind of mobile-network information is a general warrant that’s forbidden under the US Constitution, Judge Miranda M. Du of the US District Court for the District of Nevada said April 11.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Christopher Brown
A consumer dropped his proposed class action alleging Indiana-based Via Credit Union failed to protect the personal information of nearly 61,000 people that was exposed in a January data breach. Lead plaintiff William Runyan alleged that Via Credit breached its duties under common law, contract law, industry standards, and the Federal Trade Commission Act to implement reasonable and adequate data-security measures and provide timely notice of the incident.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Christopher Brown
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Christopher Brown
Automobile insurer MAPFRE USA Corp. and its subsidiary Commerce Insurance Co. must face two claims of a proposed class action alleging they negligently allowed criminals to harvest more than 266,000 consumer driver’s license numbers from the MAPFRE website. The plaintiffs adequately stated claims of violations of the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act and the Massachusetts consumer-protection statute, Judge Indira Talwani of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts said March 31.
