NYT Wins Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Subscribers’ Reading Info

The New York Times will avoid a proposed class action alleging it sold customers’ private reading information to data brokers in violation of the Michigan Preservation of Personal Privacy Act.

The evidence in the complaint created a mere suspicion of statutory violations rather than establishing their plausibility, which plaintiffs must show for their claims to survive a motion to dismiss, Judge Stephen J. Murphy III of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said Tuesday.

The court granted the Times’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, and denied two motions from the plaintiffs related to the statute of ...