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February 25, 2025

Class Certification Granted in Landmark VPPA Lawsuit Against WebMD

On February 20, 2025, the Honorable Thomas W. Thrash Jr. of the Northern District of Georgia issued an Opinion and Order granting Plaintiff's motion for class certification in the case captioned Jancik v. WebMD LLC, Case No. 1:22-cv-00644 (N.D. Ga.).  Plaintiff alleges WebMD violated the Video Privacy Protection Act ("VPPA") by unlawfully sharing its website users' video viewing activi...
August 22, 2024

American University Settlement Approved

On May 7, 2024 Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted final approval of the $5.4 million class action settlement in Qureshi v. American University. Bursor & Fisher filed the lawsuit in 2020 alleging that students at American University in Spring Semester 2020 were entitled to a partial refund of tu...