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Federal Judge Throws Out Privacy Lawsuit Against Facebook

US District Judge Edward Davila on Tuesday dismissed without leave to amend a class-action lawsuit alleging that Facebook collects personal information about users who connected with Facebook through embedded buttons on cancer organizations’ websites. Davila focused on jurisdictional issues and noted that the lead plaintiff had consented to Facebook’s tracking practices upon registering for a …


Bay Area Lawsuit Against Monsanto Over Cleanup Costs Dismissed

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and San Jose which attempted to hold Monsanto Co. accountable for the cost of reducing PCB contamination in the San Francisco Bay. The suit against Monsanto, an agricultural biotech company based in St. Louis, sought to recover the cost of cleaning up PCBs, synthetic organic chemicals whose full …