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On July 21, 2014, Judge Paul Singh Grewal of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California allowed class action claims to move forward against Google concerning its new privacy policy, which went into effect on March 1, 2012. The lawsuit alleges that the new privacy policy allows Google to commingle user data across its various products without consumers’ consent. I...

On April 29, 2013, Judge Marilyn L. Huff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted final approval to the nationwide class settlement in Cox, et al. v. Clarus Marketing Group, LLC and Provide-Commerce, Inc. In Cox, plaintiffs accused the defendants of engaging in unfair and unlawful practices to enroll online shoppers into their Freeshipping.com program....

On April 17, 2013, Judge Thomas M. Durkin of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted final approval to the nationwide class settlement in In re: Michaels Stores Pin Pad Litigation. In May 2011, Bursor & Fisher, P.A. filed the first class action against Michaels Stores concerning the data breach that resulted in the unauthorized release of customers’ fi...