36 results for 'judge:"Matsumoto"'.
J. Matsumoto adopts a magistrate’s report and recommendation and preserves, in part, a putative class action lawsuit against Geico on allegations that it exposed its customers’ driver’s license numbers through the use of an autofill feature on its sales website. The court allows claims for negligence and equitable relief, as well as a claim under the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act to proceed to trial, finding the class members sufficiently allege Geico knowingly disclosed their private information.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Matsumoto, Filed On: August 28, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv2210, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Privacy, Class Action, Technology
J. Matsumoto enters defaults judgment against a provider of supplemental vitamins on copyright infringement claims alleging it copied significant portions of a competitor’s website for use on its own site. The court issues an injunction prohibiting the defendant from further infringing the protected material, as well as ordering it to deactivate the infringing website. The court, however, declines a request to transfer the domain name to the litigant’s control, finding the litigant fails to include in its suit the names of the domain registrar or webhost.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Matsumoto, Filed On: August 16, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5106, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: Copyright, Technology
J. preserves in part an employment discrimination and retaliation complaint brought by a high school special education teacher alleging he faced discriminatory treatment on the basis that is he is Trinidadian, namely that it failed to provide him access to a men’s or unisex bathroom. He fails to provide any substantive detail that would suggest the school’s actions were motivated by discriminatory animus, but he otherwise paints a clear enough picture that he was terminated at the end of his probationary period on false accusations of lateness in retaliation for his complaints regarding access to his preferred bathroom.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Matsumoto, Filed On: August 14, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv3117, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Education, Employment Discrimination
J. Matsumoto preserves claims for breach of contract on the basis of piercing the corporate veil and tortious interference brought by the owner of a car wash and lube shop property against its tenant, finding the landlord provided sufficient details to allege the tenant’s owner exercised control over the company and devised a scheme to take advantage of New York’s moratorium on evictions during the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to withhold rent, property taxes and other obligations under its lease agreement.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Matsumoto, Filed On: July 17, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5155, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Property, Contract
J. Matsumoto dismisses a self-represented litigant’s lawsuit brought against Wells Fargo for claims under the Dodd-Frank Act, as well as violations under federal criminal law. He alleges his bank account was double-charged for a news subscription that he had previously canceled, and Wells Fargo failed to remove the overcharge in what he claims is a systemic and deliberate accounting fraud perpetrated against its banking customers. None of the statutes in which he asserts his claims provide for a private right of action.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Matsumoto, Filed On: June 20, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv5361, NOS: Banks and Banking - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, Banking / Lending
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