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VIVEK SHAH STRIKES OUT AGAIN: Court Grants Drexel’s Motion To Dismiss His Claims For Lack Of Standing (opens the original)
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Vivek Shah continues to accumulate losses, and the latest one is additional evidence that courts are getting fed up with his tactics. This latest ruling, Shah v. Drexel Chemical Co., No. 2:26-CV-01605-HDV-KES, 2026 WL 2602923 (C.D. Cal. Sept. 1, 2026), is a good one to get into because it shows exactly what a court expects a plaintiff to actually prove before an individual can allege that a website supposedly tracked them and violated CIPA. Shah sued Drexel Chemical Company, which is an agricult
CAN’T SKIP THE LINE: Court Denies Vivek Shah’s Ex Parte Application Following Ninth Circuit’s Earlier Denial Of His Expedited Appeal (opens the original)
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These Vivek Shah’s rulings have been coming fast and furious and one more has just given him another setback. This is a quick update on the saga but for anyone following all of this, it is another satisfying result. Recall that he was declared a vexatious litigant in the Central District of California for filing numerous of frivolous CIPA lawsuits, not pursuing them and as soon as a defendant would push back (i.e. bringing a motion to dismiss), he would dismiss the case altogether. See the link
THE SEESAW BATTLE CONTINUES: Another New Jersey Court Says Texts Are “Calls,” But The Decision’s Reasoning Is Hard To Defend And The Map Doesn’t Change (opens the original)
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You all know the battle that we have been following in the wake of Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369 (2024) and McLaughlin Chiropractic Assocs., Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 606 U.S. 146 (2025). Well, another New Jersey federal court just held that text messages are “telephone calls” under 227(c)(5) but the map that you are all too familiar with does not change as a result. The case is Owen-Brooks v. Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate, LLC, No. 25-15801, 2026 WL 2455150 (D.N.J. Aug. 21,
NO LOVE FOR TECHNICALITIES: Dismissal Of Vivek Shah’s Default Judgment Affirmed By California Appellate Court (opens the original)
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For anyone who regularly follows this blog and all the recent developments regarding Vivek Shah, they all too well know the script by now. A company’s website secretly installed spyware, it violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act and either pay up or a lawsuit will be filed. For the company getting these letters, maybe they read it twice and even forwarded it to their general counsel with five exclamation points and a “can he actually do this and get away with it???” The general counsel
TIME FOR ROUND TWO: Vivek Shah Throws A Light Jab But Lofty Counters With A Big Uppercut (opens the original)
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Anyone who runs a business and has ever opened their email inbox to find a “notice of CIPA violation” letter sitting there next to a complaint that seems to have been polished and reused, grab a chair because things are getting exciting. Back in July, I wrote an article about how instead of sitting around and waiting to get sued over a run of the mill website analytics tool, Lofty did what other companies will hopefully do in the future: it beat Vivek to the punch and filed its own action agains
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