On August 25, 2016, a federal court in San Francisco, California granted final approval of a settlement for multiple class action lawsuits alleging Yahoo!’s email scanning practices violated state and federal wiretap laws.
Read moreOn March 26, 2016, Kaplan Fox filed a class action lawsuit against 21st Century Oncology on behalf of patients impacted by 21st Century Oncology’s medical data breach. Plaintiffs’ Complaint alleges that 21st Century Oncology, a nationwide network of cancer treatment centers, failed to protect its patients’ most sensitive medical and personal information, including their social security numbers.
Read moreOn May 26, 2015, the Honorable Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California certified a national class and a California subclass of email users in In re Yahoo Mail Litigation, No. 13-cv-4980 (N.D. Cal.). The court also appointed Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP as one of two co-lead law firms. In the suit, four email users are seeking an injunction to stop Yahoo’s announced practice of “scanning” email content for advertising purposes, among other things. Plaintiffs allege in the complaint that Yahoo’s practices violate the federal Stored Communications Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
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