People should be able to watch films “without the whole world knowing,” said a Video Privacy Protection Act class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00316) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

Dylan Das seeks to recover damages on behalf of himself and other iRobot shareholder class members attributable to the 74% plunge in iRobot’s stock value during the 17-month period in which Amazon and iRobot were working unsuccessfully to win global regulators' approval of Amazon’s $1.7 billion iRobot buy. Das filed his securities fraud class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-02138) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark.

Crown Castle co-founder Ted Miller’s complaint to invalidate the “cooperation agreement” the Crown Castle board entered into with “activist” investor Elliott Investment Management (see 2402290063) “is without merit,” said the answer Thursday (docket 2024-0176) from 12 defendants, including Crown Castle Chair Robert Bartolo, to the Feb. 27 lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court.

Gas and convenience store chain Speedway required plaintiff Sakara Lindsey to enroll in its third-party biometric system when she was hired in September 2015, alleged her Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) complaint Friday (docket 1:24-cv-01984) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. The Illinois resident was employed by the store through September.

Fourteen plaintiffs represented by Moskowitz Law filed a trio of complaints Thursday in three different jurisdictions alleging sports and entertainment defendants used the now-bankrupt FTX global cryptocurrency exchange to participate in FTX Group’s “massive, multi-billion-dollar global fraud.”

U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian for Eastern Washington in Richland granted Barbara and Everett Knudson's motion to intervene on the side of Walla Walla, Washington, in the city's cell tower dispute with AT&T (see 2401170024), said his signed order Thursday (docket 4:23-cv-05162). The city backed the Knudsons' motion, but AT&T opposed it (see 2402010001).

U.S. Magistrate Judge Brendan Day for New Jersey in Trenton granted seven Belmar, New Jersey, residents' motion to permissively intervene as defendants in Verizon’s small-cells fight with Monmouth County, said his signed memorandum order Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-18091). The county took no position on the motion to intervene, but Verizon opposed it (see 2310240030).

The Night Flight Plus streaming service, which permits viewers to watch throwback TV shows, music videos and movies from the 1980s, has installed tracking pixels on its website that “secretly and surreptitiously send consumers’ viewing activities” to Meta without their consent, alleged plaintiff Jerry Seguin’s Video Privacy Protection Act class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-01354) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

The plaintiffs in a fraud suit against Amazon didn’t receive the benefit of their bargain when the company hiked prices for its Prime Video subscription service in January, alleged their class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00309) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

Cox Communications’ petition for rehearing en banc of a 4th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court panel’s affirmation of a jury’s finding of willful contributory copyright infringement (see 2403060028) “presents a question of exceeding importance to anyone who cares about access to the internet,” said the petition Tuesday (docket 21-1168).