Ascension Health broke the trust of millions of current and former patients last month when it announced hackers attacked its network systems, exposing patients' personally identifiable (PII) and protected health information (PHI), eight plaintiffs alleged in a negligence class action Friday (docket 4:24-cv-00870) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri in Cape Girardeau.

Walmart breached an “implied-in-fact” contract involving RedKo Innovations’ movie exchange program and raked in “billions of dollars” without paying the company “a single cent,” alleged RedKo's complaint Monday (docket 0:24-cv-02452) in U.S. District Court for Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Alphawave IP breached an agreement with consulting firm HPC Americas by refusing to pay monies owed for a successful introduction to Intel decision makers, alleged HPC's May 7 fraud complaint (docket 5:24-cv-03761) removed Monday from Santa Clara County Superior Court to U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

United Arab Emirates-based Nervora Fashion, publisher of Vogue and Wired for the Middle East market, is seeking a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order against Advance Magazine Publishers, said its petition (docket 1:24-cv-04805) Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

With AI’s enormous capabilities “comes an equally enormous potential for abuse,” alleged a dozen record labels on Monday in separate, virtually identical complaints against the generative AI services Udio and Suno.

“Impermissibly inadequate and unlawful data security” at advertising data analytics firm Ampersand.tv caused plaintiff Kathryn Mortensen and “hundreds of thousands of” class members’ personally identifiable information (PII) to be exfiltrated by cybercriminals in a Sept. 28 data breach, alleged a class action Friday (docket 1:24-cv-04749) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.

Cloud communications platform company Twilio intercepts consumers’ personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), “and related confidential information” without their consent, alleged a privacy class action Friday (docket 4:24-cv-03741) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

NetChoice is seeking summary judgment for a second time as it aims to permanently block SB-396, Arkansas’ age verification Social Media Safety Act. The law violates the First Amendment and is unconstitutionally vague, the association’s brief said Friday (docket 5:23-cv-05105) in U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville.

The chairman of two mobile communications products companies and Sonim Technologies developed products using trade secrets, intellectual property and other confidential information stolen from Reliance Communications, alleged a Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) complaint Friday (docket 2:24-cv-04433) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York.

The federal TikTok ban that takes effect Jan. 19 is “unprecedented” because Congress has never “expressly singled out and shut down a specific speech forum,” said TikTok/ByteDance's opening brief Thursday (docket 24-1113) in the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit challenging the ban’s constitutionality (see 2405070045).