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Class Action Lawsuit Continues Against Blockbuster For Making Video Rental Information Available to Facebook Users

On April 15, 2009, a federal district court issued a decision that keeps alive a woman’s suit "against Blockbuster and the way it offers information to the social networking site Facebook."  This was reported in the Dallas Business Journal.  In the ruling (.pdf), the court denied Blockbuster’s motion to compel arbitration by holding that an arbitration clause in the "Terms and Conditions" of Blockbuster Online was unenforceable. 

The case is being brought as a class action under the Video Privacy Protection Act,… More