Cook — unreliable damages expert excluded but competing business claims proceed to trial
The Eastern District excluded plaintiffs’ damages expert but found factual disputes requiring the business case to proceed toward trial.
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Smith v. Rack Room Shoes — Active Website Trackers Alone Do Not Establish Privacy Injury
The Northern District held that active website trackers, without evidence they collected the named plaintiffs’ data, did not establish standing for privacy class claims.
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Together AI v. Sesterce France — California Court Keeps GPU-Services Contract and Fraud Claims
A Northern District court allowed an AI infrastructure provider’s contract and fraud claims against French affiliates to proceed under jurisdictional and alter-ego theories.
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Shanmugam v. Bahwan — Foreign Parties on Both Sides Defeat Diversity Jurisdiction
The Northern District remanded a California business dispute because foreign citizens appeared on both sides of the case.
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Scott v. Ulta Beauty — Website trademark and access terms did not violate California’s Yelp Law
Ulta’s trademark-use and website-access provisions did not waive consumers’ right to criticize the company and therefore did not violate California’s Yelp Law on the pleaded facts.
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Brown v. VGW Holdings — Online-casino class claims survive arbitration and jurisdiction challenges
Consumers challenging online casino-style apps defeated efforts by VGW entities to compel arbitration or dismiss for lack of federal and California jurisdiction.
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Smarter HOA Solutions v. Peña — $108,000 settlement qualifies as a California good-faith settlement
A revised $108,000 settlement in an HOA-management trade-secret case was in good faith, barring comparative claims against the settlor and crediting the remaining defendant.
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Clint Petty v. Alen Corporation — Air-purifier consumer claims survive because the complaint plausibly alleges deception and may plead overlapping remedies in the alternative
Air-purifier consumer claims survive because the complaint plausibly alleges deception and may plead overlapping remedies in the alternative.
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Inventec Corporation v. X Corp. — Most contract claims against X survive, but Inventec must replead its fraud theories with greater specificity
Most contract claims against X survive, but Inventec must replead its fraud theories with greater specificity.
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Caltrans v. Herc Rentals — Cargo Shipper May Share Fault for Unsafe Loading
A cargo shipper may share negligence liability when its own loading choices create an unsafe load, despite duties imposed on the carrier and driver.
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Sausalito Yacht Harbor v. S/V Dreamer — Court Orders Interlocutory Sale of Vessel
A federal court ordered the public sale of an arrested vessel and authorized the Sausalito marina to credit bid its documented maritime debt.
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Manion v. Strategic Funding Source — Concealing loss of key customer made business debt nondischargeable
An unpublished Ninth Circuit decision held that concealing the loss of a company’s dominant customer was actual fraud that made the resulting loan debt nondischargeable.
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Alicea v. PayByPhone — Unclear Online Assent Defeats Arbitration, but Consumer Claims Still Need Plausible Injury
The Northern District denied arbitration because the record did not show clear notice and manifested assent to the terms. Screens and excerpts presented to the court did not direct users to the terms in a way that established contract formation at the pleading stage.
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O’Malley v. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. — Checkout page did not clearly bind shoppers to arbitration
O’Malley v. Williams-Sonoma, Inc.: A Northern District of California court held that checkout page did not clearly bind shoppers to arbitration.
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Uddin v. Automobili Lamborghini America LLC — Vehicle customization dispute fails for lack of contract and warranty proof
Uddin v. Automobili Lamborghini America LLC: A Northern District of California court held that vehicle customization dispute fails for lack of contract and warranty proof.
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Biddle v. The Walt Disney Co. — Streaming terms require individual arbitration and defeat class claims
Biddle v. The Walt Disney Co.: A Northern District of California court held that streaming terms require individual arbitration and defeat class claims.
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Hatami v. Jeld-Wen, Inc. — Window-defect fraud allegations need more detail
Hatami v. Jeld-Wen, Inc.: A Northern District of California court held that window-defect fraud allegations need more detail.
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Eli Lilly & Co. v. Mochi Health Corp. — False-advertising conspiracy theories split under federal and California law
Eli Lilly & Co. v. Mochi Health Corp.: A Northern District of California court held that false-advertising conspiracy theories split under federal and California law.
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Rusow v. Jolie Skin Co. — Chlorine-removal claim survives but hair-growth theory does not
Rusow v. Jolie Skin Co.: A Northern District of California court held that chlorine-removal claim survives but hair-growth theory does not.
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Spears v. Campbell’s Co. — Website privacy and wiretap claims survive pleading challenge
Spears v. Campbell’s Co.: A Northern District of California court held that website privacy and wiretap claims survive pleading challenge.
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Urban Sunrise v. Vogt — Dual Agents Defeat Fiduciary Claims Over Failed Commercial Property Deals
The Third District upheld summary judgment for dual real-estate agents because the buyer failed to produce a triable issue on the fiduciary breaches it pleaded.
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Uhl v. Roblox Corp. — Roblox Waived Arbitration by Litigating Before Moving to Compel
Uhl v. Roblox Corp.: A divided Ninth Circuit affirmed the refusal to compel arbitration in a nonprecedential memorandum.
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Construction Laborers Pension Trust v. Funko — Risk disclosures can mislead when the warned-of harm already exists
Funko shareholders plausibly alleged fraud where risk disclosures treated existing inventory and technology failures as merely hypothetical future problems.
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Range Energy Inc. v. Hyliion Inc. — Electric-Trailer Patent Claim Is Ineligible as an Abstract Idea
Range Energy Inc. v. Hyliion Inc.: The court dismissed the amended infringement counterclaim as to claim 16, without further leave to amend that claim.