Data Collection Suit Against Car Rental Company Remanded To State Court

Mealey's (July 23, 2019, 12:34 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Because a car rental company’s motion to dismiss privacy claims over customer data collection was based on a lack of jurisdiction, a California federal judge on July 8 found that this contradicted the company’s initial removal of the case from state court, leading the judge to grant the plaintiff’s motion to remand the matter to state court because the defendant cannot “have it both ways” (Andy Ayala v. Sixt Rent A Car LLC, No. 2:19-cv-01514, C.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 112879)....