A California federal court has allowed two privacy claims against Sony to proceed in litigation over allegations that its smart TVs used automatic content recognition technology to collect viewers’ viewing data and share it with third parties. The court dismissed 15 of the 17 claims, with leave to amend, but found the alleged collection and
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Court Finds that MLB’s Arbitration Clause Doesn’t Cover the Bases
By Roma Patel on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
On September 30, 2026, a New York federal judge denied Major League Baseball’s digital-ticketing arm, MLB Advanced Media, L.P. (MLBAM), a chance to send to arbitration most claims over tickets that disappeared from the MLB Ballpark app after a cyberattack. Lanham v. MLB Advanced Media, L.P., No. 25-cv-7780 (AS), slip op. at 6–8 (S.D.N.Y.