{"id":265,"case_number":"2:26cv3454","date_filed":"2026-03-25","case_status":null,"is_class_action":true,"summary":"Class action for violations of the Trap and Trace Law and the California Invasion of Privacy Act. Defendant has installed and deployed data broker software on its website to secretly collect data about visitors, their devices, locations and views of webpages to identify who they are, target them with unwanted marketing and track them on an ongoing basis.","judge":null,"cipa_statutes":null,"statute_jurisdictions":null,"is_cipa":null,"technology":null,"plaintiff_text":"Lawrence Schallert, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated","raw_defendant_text":"Sensient Technologies Corporation, a Wisconsin corp., Does","court_name":"USDC Central District of California","court_type":"Federal","state_code":"CA","state_name":"California","primary_industry":"Manufacturing","secondary_industry":null,"plaintiff_attorney":"J. Evan Shapiro","plaintiff_firm":"Tauler Smith LLP","defendants":[{"id":3091,"canonical_name":"Sensient Technologies","role":"primary"}],"classification":{"categories":[{"id":"pen_register","confidence":1.0,"source":"rule:pen_register@20260511T215654Z","rationale":"rules fired: summary_regex"},{"id":"copycat","confidence":0.9,"source":"llm:gemini-2.5-flash@20260511T215656Z","rationale":"The plaintiff firm, Tauler Smith LLP, has filed 19 CIPA cases in the last 12 months, indicating a pattern of serial filings consistent with a copycat strategy."}],"high_caution":false,"max_caution_level":"safe"}}