Critical Mass: Class Actions Hit Facebook in Wake of Cambridge Analytica Revelations. Plus: NFL Concussion Lawyers Call for Penalty
Lawyers filed the first consumer class action against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in the wake of reports that a research firm with ties to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign mined data about Facebook users through an app. Other lawsuits--a securities class action and a derivative shareholder suit--followed soon after.
March 23, 2018 at 02:00 PM
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Welcome to Critical Mass, Law.com's briefing on class actions and mass torts. I'm Amanda Bronstad in Los Angeles. Here's something Facebook won't “like”: class actions filed over the Cambridge Analytica debacle. Lawyers are calling for a penalty flag to be thrown in the NFL concussion settlement's claims process. And patent infringement suits are popping up before the MDL panel in the wake of the landmark SCOTUS decision in TC Heartland.
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