21 results for 'cat:"Privacy" AND cat:"Discovery"'.
J. Wicks grants in part a motion to seal personal information disclosed in series of prior motions to quash or for a protective order, which included the defendants’ social security numbers and corporate bank account information. Several court filings are sealed entirely, while the court allows a portion of the documents to be refiled with redactions. The rest will remain public because the defendants themselves waived their rights to privacy when they included the information in their court motions and allowed those documents to remain on the court docket for months without taking the appropriate action.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Wicks, Filed On: April 19, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv2370, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Evidence, privacy, discovery
J. Cole mostly denies a class of truck drivers’ motion for more discovery in this long-running case over a railroad operator potentially violating biometric privacy law. The court broadly sides with the railroad operator in its assertion that it has already provided the class of drivers with all the discovery documents they are entitled to, but nevertheless orders the operator to compile a privilege log regarding its communications with a third-party software company.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cole, Filed On: April 15, 2024, Case #: 1:20cv390, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: privacy, discovery, Class Action
J. Foster grants the pornographer's motions to serve third-party subpoenas seeking information on various unknown internet users in 12 cases alleging that the users unlawfully downloaded and distributed its copyrighted movies. Expedited discovery is warranted because the requests are specific in that they seek only the users' names and addresses, the pornographer has stated an actionable claim, there are no other ways to obtain this information, the case cannot proceed without it, and appropriate guardrails can be, and hereby are, put in place to protect the users' privacy.
Court: USDC Minnesota, Judge: Foster, Filed On: April 11, 2024, Case #: 0:24cv1060, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: Copyright, privacy, discovery
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J. Jones grants a former employee’s motion for a protective order in this employment dispute brought against the city and its light department regarding religious discrimination. The employee alleges she was fired after her supervisor refused to accommodate religious exemption requests for the state’s Covid-19 vaccine requirement. The city then requested school records of the employee’s minor child, and she argues the records are beyond the scope of litigation and the minor child’s privacy should be protected. Therefore, the parties shall redact the child’s name and birthdate and use initials only. The court grants the city’s motion to compel for the former employee to answer each deficient interrogatory and request for production.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Jones, Filed On: March 1, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv1668, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: privacy, discovery, Employment Discrimination
J. Vilardo denies a motion in which restaurant company Wahlburgers, which is accused of being handicap-inaccessible, sought to file a corporate disclosure statement under seal. The statement is essential to determine whether the court has judicial power over the case, and the company failed to demonstrate the corporate structure and ownership information would damage the business if made public.
Court: USDC Western District of New York, Judge: Vilardo , Filed On: January 16, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv1299, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Ada / Rehabilitation Act, privacy, discovery
J. Boyle grants a civilian and military training company’s second motion for preliminary injunction against a former employee who allegedly withheld confidential information, including copies of 98,000 emails. The company’s first motion was denied because up to that point, the former employee’s misappropriation of the information was speculative. Thanks to discovery in a related suit, it was found that the employee does possess said emails, which contain highly sensitive personal information about current employees. This is enough to demonstrate that the company is likely to succeed on the merits and existence of irreparable harm.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Boyle, Filed On: January 8, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv334, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: privacy, discovery, Contract
J. Cole grants a class of plaintiff truck drivers’ motion to compel the production of damages data. A railroad company captured thousands of truck drivers’ fingerprints when the drivers passed through its gates in Illinois, in violation of the state’s privacy law governing biometric information, and the court finds it appropriate for the company to produce data of every fingerprint scan it captured.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cole, Filed On: December 13, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv390, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: privacy, discovery, Class Action
J. Lasnik grants the consumer's motion to compel the production of exchanged documents and communications from government investigations of Alexa devices and all documents identified using the court-ordered search terms. Despite Amazon's argument to the contrary, the fact that a government agency inquired about Amazon's storage and sharing of Alexa audio recordings and transcriptions falls within the permissible scope of discovery for this case, in which the consumer alleges that Amazon saved recordings of consumers who used their Alexa devices.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Lasnik, Filed On: September 15, 2023, Case #: 2:21cv750, NOS: Constitutionality of State Statutes - Other Suits, Categories: Constitution, privacy, discovery
J. Foster grants the pornographer's motions to serve third-party subpoenas on internet service providers to obtain identifying information for 17 unknown persons alleged to have unlawfully distributed its films. The pornographer has sufficiently stated an actionable copyright-infringement claim in each case, its discovery requests are sufficiently specific, it has adequately shown that there are no alternative ways to obtain the requested information and that the cases cannot proceed without it, and that, with protective orders keeping the identities of the people identified from the public, the pornographer's right to pursue its claims outweigh their expectations of privacy.
Court: USDC Minnesota, Judge: Foster, Filed On: June 20, 2023, Case #: 0:23cv1571, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: Copyright, privacy, discovery