A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered a putative class action against Allbirds Inc. into arbitration, ruling that a click-through checkout agreement gave the shoemaker reasonably conspicuous notice of its mandatory arbitration...
Vickers v. Allbirds, Inc.
A federal judge in San Francisco certified a nationwide class of investors in a securities fraud case against Alphabet Inc. and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, allowing the case to proceed to trial on allegations that Google’s advertising...
AMI - Government Employees Provident Fund Management Company Ltd. v. Alphabet Inc. et al
A Northern District of California judge dismissed a products liability lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, ruling that plaintiffs failed to plead when their mother was exposed to Risperdal or discovered her...
Owens et al v. Johnson & Johnson et al
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that a pro se musician failed to plausibly allege that YouTube users had a reasonable chance of seeing his original composition before uploading allegedly infringing tracks, dismissing the case with...
Shlapatskyi v. YouTube, LLC et al
A federal judge in California dismissed a former employee’s state-law overtime claim against Levi Strauss & Co., ruling the Labor Management Relations Act preempts the suit because the worker is covered by a collective bargaining...
Levi Strauss & Co. v. Delta Galil USA, Inc. et al
A Northern California federal judge appointed two investors with the largest alleged losses as lead plaintiffs in a securities class action accusing Picard Medical of facilitating a social media pump-and-dump scheme.
Louie v. Picard Medical, Inc. et al
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that PHH Mortgage’s privacy policies did not provide blanket consent for the secret sharing of users’ individualized financial data with third-party trackers, allowing key privacy and wiretap claims...
Allison v. PHH Mortgage
The Northern District of California ruled that a motion to transfer grant-termination claims to the Court of Federal Claims triggers a partial automatic stay under 28 U.S.C. § 1491(d)(4), but allows challenges to the underlying...
State of California et al v. Wright et al
A California consumer says the infomercial giant ran a perpetual "76% OFF" sale on its website that was never actually a sale.
Joyce v. Guthy-Renker, LLC.
A Northern District of California judge granted in part and denied in part Levi Strauss & Co.'s motion to dismiss a putative class and collective action brought by former employee Jermaine Whitfield, allowing wage and hour claims to...
Whitfield v. Levi Strauss & Co.
A federal judge denied Experian Data Corporation's bid to freeze a putative class action over alleged wiretapping and privacy violations, ruling the company failed to show a stay was necessary.
Gilligan et al v. Experian Data Corporation et al