Judge Remands Data-Sharing Class Claims Against Medical Center To State Court

Mealey's (April 26, 2023, 1:41 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted a plaintiff’s motion to remand his putative class action against a health care provider for allegedly invading his privacy and violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by using various tracking tools in its website and app to state court after the judge rejected the provider’s argument that federal directives regarding online patient access create “federal officer jurisdiction.”...