To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Another chapter in the now decade-long saga of Douez v. Facebook was penned earlier this month as a British Columbia Court found Facebook liable for providing advertisers access to users’ personal information without the users’ consent. On June 2, 2022,…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. At the end of March 2022, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (the “CAT”) handed down a detailed and wide-ranging 255-page judgmentone in relation to two competing applications (the “Applications”) for an ‘opt-out’ Collective Proceedings Order (“CPO”) in follow-on damages disputes…
In a recent decision from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, a federal Judge pushed back against the common but abusive practice of “mootness fee” payoffs in public M&A deals. In the February 2022 opinion, Judge Oetken denied a $250,000 attorneys’ fee demand by plaintiff’s counsel in an investor…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. TOP 3 Legal Developments of 2021 one Courts Limit Availability of Intrusion Upon Seclusion: In recent years, we have seen a large increase in the number of privacy class actions in Ontario. The main cause of action alleged in most…
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The Supreme Court of British Columbia has found that members of an ongoing class action did not consent to Facebook’s use of their likenesses in its Sponsored Stories ads. In a summary judgment released June 2 (Douez v. Facebook, Inc., 2022 BCSC 914), the Court held that Facebook was therefore liable under privacy legislation of…
In the recent decision in Stewart v Demme,one the Divisional Court granted the defendant’s appeal setting aside the order of the certification judge2 and ultimately dismissing the plaintiff’s motion to certify the proposed class action for intrusion upon seclusion. The case is yet another example of a claim for breach of privacy being rejected by…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Seventh Circuit rejected emotional distress and other intangible injuries as a basis for Article III standing in a class action seeking statutory damages under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Of Pierre v. Midland Credit Management, Inc., Nos….
