A Mayo Clinic newsletter customer received a “barrage of unwanted junk mail” after the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research rented or sold information about her subscription purchase to third parties, alleged a privacy class action Tuesday (docket 4:24-cv-00033) in U.S. District Court for Utah in Salt Lake City. The suit alleges Mayo violated Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act (NISNPIA).

Univision “secretly discloses” the titles and URLs of videos subscribers view on the Univision Now video streaming platform, in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act, alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 5:24-cv-01517) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Montana’s statewide TikTok ban is an “ordinary exercise” of the states’ police power to protect their citizens from deceptive and harmful business practices, said Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) and the Republican AGs of 18 other states in an amicus brief Saturday (docket 24-34) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The brief supports the appeal of Montana AG Austin Knudsen (R) to reverse the district court’s Nov. 20 injunction that blocks him from enforcing SB-419 (see 2312010003).

If ever there were a petition for rehearing en banc that should be granted, it's Cox Communications’ petition in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said Frontier Communications’ amicus brief Monday (docket 21-1168) in support.

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Indiana’s statewide “buffer law” (HB-1186), making it a misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of police officers on active duty, gives the police “unlimited and unbridled discretion to move all persons away,” said Donald Nicodemus’ opening brief Monday (docket 24-1099) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

When 23andMe made several announcements about a data breach in October, it didn’t disclose that hackers who infiltrated its computer network “were after the personal information of Jewish and Chinese customers,” alleged a class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-01418) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. 23andMe customer Rudy Thompson filed the complaint.

American Tower, AT&T and T-Mobile “could easily and with minimal cost” take action to modify their facilities to end plaintiff Marcia Haller’s “debilitating symptoms” while allowing her to still use their telecommunications services, alleged Haller's Americans With Disabilities Act complaint Monday (docket 0:24-cv-00877) in U.S. District Court for Minnesota in Duluth.

Crown Castle co-founder Ted Miller’s complaint to invalidate the “cooperation agreement” the Crown Castle board entered into with “activist” investor Elliott Investment Management (see 2402290063) “is without merit,” said the answer Thursday (docket 2024-0176) from 12 defendants, including Crown Castle Chair Robert Bartolo, to the Feb. 27 lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court.

Dylan Das seeks to recover damages on behalf of himself and other iRobot shareholder class members attributable to the 74% plunge in iRobot’s stock value during the 17-month period in which Amazon and iRobot were working unsuccessfully to win global regulators' approval of Amazon’s $1.7 billion iRobot buy. Das filed his securities fraud class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-02138) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark.