Hazel
Hazel v. Prudential Financial, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 TYRONE HAZEL, et al., Case No. 22-cv-07465-CRB
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
v.
DENYING IN PART MOTION TO
DISMISS
PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL, INC., et al., 15 Defendants. 16 Plaintiffs Tyrone Hazel, Roxane Evans, Valerie Torres, and Rhonda Hyman allege 17 that Prudential Financial employed a software provider, ActiveProspect (together, 18 “Defendants”) to collect their information without their consent as they sought a life 19 insurance quote. See Am. Compl. (dkt. 18). Plaintiffs bring claims for violations of 20 Section 631 of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”), Invasion of Privacy under 21 the California Constitution, and the California Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”). Id. 22 ¶¶ 89–121. 23 This action is just the latest in a long line of cases challenging the use of third-party 24 software to record website visitors’ activity without their knowledge, including 25 ActiveProspect’s “TrustedForm” software in particular.1 In a related case, Javier v.
27 1 See, e.g., Javier v.…