Above The Law (March 20, 2024) — This actually makes a lot of sense the more you think about it. What do you do after you finish skewering the powerful as a Daily Show correspondent? Help sue the powerful with a plaintiff-side firm of course. In one of the more unexpected staffing press releases we’ve … Continued
Techspot (February 27, 2024) — What just happened? California resident Guillermo Mata has sued a Texas-based company for selling location data of people’s vehicles to marketers, repo agencies, and insurers. Filed in 2021, the lawsuit was granted class action status last September, and alleges that the actions of Fort Worth-based Digital Recognition Network (DRN) violate … Continued
CVN (March, 7 2024) — Portland, OR – An Oregon state court jury awarded $42 million on Monday to 10 plaintiffs who blamed electric utility PacifiCorp for their property damage in the Labor Day Fire of 2020, and the full trial was webcast gavel-to-gavel by Courtroom View Network. PacifiCorp could potentially face billions of dollars … Continued
AP (March 5, 2024) -— A jury in Oregon has ordered PacifiCorp to pay more than $42 million to 10 victims of devastating wildfires on Labor Day 2020 — the latest verdict in litigation that is expected to see the electric utility on the hook for billions in damages. Last June, a jury found PacifiCorp … Continued
KOIN (March 5, 2024) — Ten victims of the 2020 Labor Day Wildfires were awarded over $42 million in damages by a Portland jury on Tuesday amid a class action lawsuit against PacifiCorp. Tuesday’s verdict includes over $5 million in economic damages and over $23 million in non-economic damages, with both increasing by 25% for … Continued
LAW.COM (Feb 29, 2024) — A federal judge in California stayed lawsuits brought over 23andMe’s data breach, despite concerns raised by some plaintiffs lawyers about the possibility of continuing privacy violations. At a Thursday hearing, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who is overseeing most of the 35 lawsuits against 23andMe in the Northern District of … Continued
The Guardian (February 17, 2024) — The company pointed at people who ‘failed to update their passwords’ as sensitive data was offered for sale on forums. Three years ago, a man in Florida named JL decided, on a whim, to send a tube of his spit to the genetic testing site 23andMe in exchange for … Continued
SFGATE (February 24, 2024) — Trial is scheduled for May in a case affecting millions of California drivers. The company says it did nothing wrong. If you drive a car in California, you may be in for a payday thanks to a lawsuit alleging privacy violations by a Texas company.The 2021 lawsuit, given class-action status … Continued
Top Class Actions (February 14, 2024) — Wendy’s agreed to a $18.2 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims that it collected worker biometrics without following Illinois privacy regulations. The settlement benefits current and former Wendy’s employees who worked at a corporate-operated restaurant in Illinois and scanned their fingerprint in a finger scanner between … Continued
Law360 (June 16, 2023) — …Edelson PC, Stoll Berne Lokting & Shlachter PC and Keller Rohrback LLP make this week’s list after an Oregon jury on Monday found the utility PacifiCorp was grossly negligent in causing a group of Labor Day 2020 fires, awarding at least $71.9 million to owners of properties devastated by the … Continued
