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USA - May 10 2012
The Northern District of California continues the series begun by the Seventh Circuit in Sterk v. Redbox Automated Retail LLC, against class actions brought under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act and seeking lucrative liquidated damages simply because a "video tape service provider" retains records of customers' video purchases and rentals past the one-year cut-off.
USA - April 6 2012
In its March 28 decision in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper, the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the federal Privacy Act of 1974 and held that the term "actual damages," as used in the Act, does not include damages for mental or emotional distress.
USA - March 22 2012
Just over a year after it was filed, Chevron Corporation and other oil companies won dismissal of a putative privacy class action filed after the California Supreme Court's decision in Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma Stores, Inc.
USA - December 5 2011
Recently, Judge S. James Otero of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied plaintiff Norma Rothman's class certification motion in connection with her complaint under California's Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971.
