Class Actions Pennsylvania Supreme Court Declares Employers Have Affirmative Duty to Protect Employee Personal Information • According to a recent opinion by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, “an employer has a legal duty to exercise reasonable care to safeguard its employees’ sensitive personal information stored by the employer on an internet-accessible computer system.” • The putative … Continue Reading
Co-authored by: Zack Rosenberg Editor’s Note: This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) restricts telephone solicitations and limits the use of automatic dialing systems, prerecorded voice messages, SMS text messages, and faxes. TCPA plaintiffs typically claim that they received unwanted calls, texts or … Continue Reading
This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog. As reported here in April, an Illinois federal district court certified a privacy class that could number tens of millions of plaintiffs in the case of Harris v. comScore. The plaintiffs claimed that comScore, an online data research company, violated the Stored Communications … Continue Reading
Editor’s note: This is a cross-blog post with BakerHostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog. For the latest class action defense updates, visit www.ClassActionLawsuitDefense.com. Sighs of relief by class actions defendants following the denial of class certification in Hannaford may give way to renewed uncertainty now that a massive class, estimated by the plaintiffs’ lawyer to be more than a … Continue Reading
