JUSTICE IS SERVED: Vivek Shah Declared A Vexatious Litigant!

Hi CIPAWorld!

Twenty-nine lawsuits in under five years. Seven nearly identical complaints in seven months. And almost none of them ever saw the inside of a courtroom before the plaintiff himself pulled the plug. That’s the résumé a federal judge in Los Angeles was staring at when he decided one man had officially worn out his welcome in the Central District of California.

If you’ve done any privacy defense work in California, you already know the lawsuit at the center of all this by heart, even before reading a word of the complaint. A website runs some kind of chat tool or analytics software, and supposedly that means it “intercepted” a visitor’s communications in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act. Swap out the defendant’s name and the URL, and you’ve read them all.