NBA Video Data-Sharing Lawsuit Reinstated by Second Circuit (2)

A Second Circuit panel vacated a lower court’s ruling that the National Basketball Association could skirt a proposed class action accusing the league of video data-sharing violations.

Plaintiff Michael Salazar sufficiently alleged concrete injury and that he was a “subscriber of goods or services” under the 1988 federal Video Privacy Protection Act, the US court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in an opinion Tuesday. The “core alleged harm"—that his personal information was disclosed to a third party without his consent in violation the VPPA—is similar to harms traditionally recognized as providing a basis for lawsuit in American ...