Consumer Protection
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Aveanna Healthcare LLC was hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court Thursday alleging the Atlanta-based pediatric home care provider got hacked as a result of its lax digital security practices, then failed to help individuals whose sensitive data may have been stolen… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Arizona’s attorney general has launched a lawsuit against Google LLC that accuses the company of defrauding users about their privacy while targeting them with a “sweeping surveillance apparatus,” according to a heavily redacted complaint filed Wednesday in state court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An Illinois gamer who sued Nintendo of America Inc. will have to go to arbitration with his claims of an alleged defect in the joystick controllers for the entertainment giant’s Switch gaming system, an Illinois federal judge ruled on Thursday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Consumers who blamed Carrier Corp. and related companies for an allegedly faulty valve in their heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems lost another attempt to pursue their claims as a class action Monday, after a California federal judge said the cases need individual scrutiny… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Zoom’s lax security allowed a “known offender” to commandeer a web-based Bible study class and “Zoombomb” its participants with “traumatizing” pornography, a San Francisco church alleged in a proposed class action filed Wednesday in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 