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Case Law Index.

A short summary of every precedent, settlement, and OCR resolution that drives the rest of the library. Each entry has a dollar amount, a court, a date, and primary sources.

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The Advocate Aurora $12.25M settlement, explained for non-lawyers

Advocate Aurora paid $12.25M in 2024 over Meta Pixel disclosures across its website, app, and MyChart-integrated portal. The template for every pixel suit that followed.

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Smith v. Advocate Aurora Health, the $12.25M Meta Pixel class action

The largest publicly-known pixel settlement against a U.S. hospital. Filed October 2022, $12.25M settlement July 2024, ~3M patients in the class.

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FTC v. GoodRx — the first HBNR enforcement and the $1.5M order

The first-ever FTC enforcement of the Health Breach Notification Rule. $1.5M civil penalty, 20-year compliance order, and the template for every FTC case that followed.

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FTC v. BetterHelp — $7.8M in mental-health-data refunds

The first-ever FTC consumer redress for a privacy violation involving health data. $7.8M for BetterHelp's pixel-based intake disclosures.

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FTC v. Cerebral — the $7M+ telehealth pixel settlement

The first-of-its-kind FTC data-use restrictions on a telehealth provider. Cerebral shared 3.2M patients' data via website pixels and mobile-app SDKs.

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AHA v. Becerra — the case that narrowed the OCR Tracking Technologies Bulletin

The 2024 ruling that narrowed the OCR Tracking Technologies Bulletin — and the three common misreadings of how far it actually went.

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People v. Sephora — the $1.2M CCPA settlement that defined "sale" as ad-tech sharing

A beauty retailer's $1.2M CCPA settlement set the framework now applied to healthcare sites with tracking pixels — including the GPC requirement most cookie banners don't meet.

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In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation — the federal MDL against Meta

The federal MDL against Meta itself for receiving patient data from hospital websites. 664+ hospitals identified, in active discovery, no global settlement yet.

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