Gottsleben v. Informa Media, Inc.
Plaintiff: Mark Gottsleben
Defendant: Informa Media, Inc. f/k/a Penton Media, Inc., Informa Media, Inc. and Penton Media, Inc.
Case Number: 1:2022cv00866
Filed: September 19, 2022
Court: US District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Presiding Judge: Hala Y Jarbou
Referring Judge: Ray Kent
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28 U.S.C. § 1332 Diversity-Fraud
Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff
Docket Report

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Date Filed Document Text
January 18, 2023 Opinion or Order Filing 23 CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER: motions for class certification due 11/6/2023; discovery to be completed by 3/8/2024; dispositive motions due by 4/8/2024; settlement conference set for 10/15/2024 at 01:30 PM at 584 Federal Building, Grand Rapids, MI before Magistrate Judge Ray Kent; final pretrial conference set for 11/6/2024 at 10:00 AM at 128 Federal Building, Lansing, MI before Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou; jury trial set for 12/2/2024 at 09:00 AM at 174 Federal Building, Kalamazoo, MI before Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou; signed by Magistrate Judge Ray Kent (fhw)
January 18, 2023 Opinion or Order Filing 22 MINUTES of scheduling conference by telephone held before Magistrate Judge Ray Kent; case management order to issue (Proceedings Not Digitally Recorded) (sjc)
January 13, 2023 Opinion or Order Filing 21 JOINT STATUS REPORT submitted for filing by plaintiff Mark Gottsleben (Miller, E.)
January 10, 2023 Opinion or Order Filing 20 MOTION to dismiss for failure to state a claim by defendant Informa Media, Inc.; (Attachments: #1 Memorandum ISO Motion to Dismiss FAC, #2 Proposed Order) (Tagvoryan, Ana)
December 29, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 19 ORDER denying as moot #14 motion to dismiss; defendant's responsive pleading to plaintiff's amended complaint due by 1/10/23; signed by Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou (kjw)
December 28, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 18 NOTICE rescheduling hearing that was previously set for 1/4/2023 at 10:00 AM; telephone Rule 16 scheduling conference rescheduled to 1/18/2023 at 10:30 AM before Magistrate Judge Ray Kent; (fhw)
December 27, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 17 UNOPPOSED MOTION to continue RULE 16 SCHEDULING CONFERENCE by defendant Informa Media, Inc.; (Brown, Harrison)
December 27, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 16 First AMENDED COMPLAINT Class Action Complaint against Informa Media, Inc. filed by Mark Gottsleben (Attachments: #1 Index, #2 Exhibit A - US Agriculture Masterfile (formerly Agbase) from Informa Mailing List, #3 Exhibit B - Farm Progress, Penton Media Buys Farm Progress From Fairfax Media (Nov. 13, 2012), #4 Exhibit C - PRNewswire, Penton Launches 'Penton SmartReach' Division (Mar. 26, 2014), #5 Exhibit D - Chief Marketer, New Penton Database Offers Targeted B2B Data (Apr. 8, 2014), #6 Exhibit E - PRNewswire, New Penton SmartReach Audience Extension Provides Expanded Reach For Business-To-Business Marketers (Dec. 10, 2015), #7 Exhibit F - Wikipedia, Penton (company) (as of Dec. 23, 2022), #8 Exhibit G - Penton, Privacy Policy (last revised: Mar. 11, 2015, in effect on July 10, 2016), #9 Exhibit H - Folio Magazine, Informa Acquires Penton for $1.56 Billion (Sept. 15, 2016), #10 Exhibit I - New York Department of State, Division of Corporations, Entity Name History for Informa Media, Inc., #11 Exhibit J - Privacy: Sales, Rentals of Videos, etc., House Legislative Analysis Section, H.B. No. 5331, Jan. 20, 1989, #12 Exhibit K - The Information Marketplace: Merging and Exchanging Consumer Data (Mar. 13, 2001), #13 Exhibit L - Web's Hot New Commodity: Privacy, WSJ (Feb. 28, 2011), #14 Exhibit M - Statement of FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour (Dec. 7, 2009), #15 Exhibit N - Martha C. White, Big Data Knows What You're Doing Right Now, TIME.com (July 31, 2012), #16 Exhibit O - Natasha Singer, You for Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome, N.Y. Times (June 16, 2012), #17 Exhibit P - Letter from Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Chairman, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to Scott E. Howe, Chief Executive Officer, Acxiom (Oct. 9, 2012), #18 Exhibit Q - Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Query Data Brokers About Practices Involving Consumers' Personal Information, Website of Senator Ed Markey (July 24, 2012), #19 Exhibit R - Prize Scams, Federal Trade Commission, #20 Exhibit S - Charles Duhigg, Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist, N.Y. Times (May 20, 2007), #21 Exhibit T - Fraud Against Seniors: Hearing before the Senate Special Committee on Aging (August 10, 2000), #22 Exhibit U - 2014 TRUSTe US Consumer Confidence Privacy Report, TRUSTe, #23 Exhibit V - Joshua Brustein, Start-Ups Seek to Help Users Put a Price on Their Personal Data, N.Y. Times (Feb. 12, 2012), #24 Exhibit W - European Network and Information Security Agency, Study on monetizing privacy (Feb. 27, 2012), #25 Exhibit X - Hann, et al., The Value of Online Information Privacy: An Empirical Investigation (Oct. 2003), #26 Exhibit Y - California's Reader Privacy Act Signed into Law, Electronic Frontier Foundation (Oct. 3, 2011)) (Miller, E.)
December 27, 2022 Opinion or Order (NON-DOCUMENT) ORDER REFERRING UNOPPOSED MOTION to continue RULE 16 SCHEDULING CONFERENCE #17 to Magistrate Judge Ray Kent under 28 U.S.C. 636(b)(1)(A); signed by Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou (kjw)
December 6, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 15 ORDER setting Rule 16 scheduling conference by telephone: telephone Rule 16 scheduling conference set for 1/4/2023 at 10:00 AM before Magistrate Judge Ray Kent; status report due by 12/29/2023; signed by Magistrate Judge Ray Kent (fhw)
December 5, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 14 MOTION to dismiss for failure to state a claim by defendant Informa Media, Inc.; (Attachments: #1 Memorandum in Support, #2 Proposed Order) (Tagvoryan, Ana) Modified text on 12/6/2022 (eod)
November 1, 2022 Opinion or Order (NON-DOCUMENT) ATTORNEY APPEARANCE of Harrison Maxwell Brown on behalf of defendant Informa Media, Inc. (Brown, Harrison)
October 13, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 13 MINUTES of status conference held before Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou (Court Reporter: Genevieve Hamlin) (kjw)
October 12, 2022 Opinion or Order (NON-DOCUMENT) ATTORNEY APPEARANCE of Ana Tagvoryan on behalf of defendant Informa Media, Inc. (Tagvoryan, Ana)
October 6, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 12 WAIVER OF SERVICE returned executed by Mark Gottsleben as to Mark Gottsleben waiver sent on 10/4/2022, answer due 12/5/2022 (Miller, E.)
October 3, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 11 (RESTRICTED ACCESS) DOCUMENT Videoconference Information for 10/13/2022 hearing. RECORDING OR BROADCASTING OF THIS PROCEEDING IS PROHIBITED. W.D. Mich. LGenR 4.1(c)(i) and (ii). [Access to this document is available to the Court and attorney(s) for Mark Gottsleben, Informa Media, Inc. only] (kjw)
September 30, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 10 NOTICE of status conference set for 10/13/2022 at 09:00 AM by video at by video before Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou; (kjw)
September 30, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 9 MINUTES of status conference held before Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou (Court Reporter: Genevieve Hamlin) (kjw)
September 28, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 8 (RESTRICTED ACCESS) DOCUMENT Videoconference Information for 9/29/2022 hearing. RECORDING OR BROADCASTING OF THIS PROCEEDING IS PROHIBITED. W.D. Mich. LGenR 4.1(c)(i) and (ii). [Access to this document is available to the Court and attorney(s) for Mark Gottsleben, Informa Media, Inc. only] (kjw)
September 27, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 7 NOTICE of status conference set for 9/29/2022 at 10:00 AM by video before Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou; (aks)
September 26, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 6 ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER No. 22-CA-084 that this case is reassigned to Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou for all further proceedings ; signed by Chief Judge Hala Y. Jarbou (slk)
September 23, 2022 Opinion or Order (NON-DOCUMENT) ATTORNEY APPEARANCE of Frank S. Hedin on behalf of plaintiff Mark Gottsleben (Hedin, Frank)
September 21, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 5 SUMMONS ISSUED as to defendant Informa Media, Inc. (ns)
September 20, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 4 NOTICE Plaintiff's Notice of Cognate Case by plaintiff Mark Gottsleben (Miller, E.)
September 20, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 3 PROPOSED SUMMONS to be issued re #1 (Miller, E.)
September 20, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 2 NOTICE that this case has been assigned Paul L. Maloney (eod)
September 20, 2022 Opinion or Order (NON-DOCUMENT) ATTORNEY APPEARANCE of Sharon S. Almonrode on behalf of plaintiff Mark Gottsleben (Almonrode, Sharon)
September 20, 2022 Opinion or Order (NON-DOCUMENT) ATTORNEY APPEARANCE of Gregory A. Mitchell on behalf of plaintiff Mark Gottsleben (Mitchell, Gregory)
September 20, 2022 Opinion or Order (NON-DOCUMENT) ATTORNEY APPEARANCE of Philip L. Fraietta on behalf of plaintiff Mark Gottsleben (Fraietta, Philip)
September 20, 2022 Opinion or Order SUMMONS NOT ISSUED as to defendant Informa Media, Inc. (none provided) (eod)
September 20, 2022 Opinion or Order (NON-DOCUMENT) ATTORNEY APPEARANCE of Joseph I. Marchese on behalf of plaintiff Mark Gottsleben (Marchese, Joseph)
September 19, 2022 Opinion or Order Filing 1 COMPLAINT with jury demand against Informa Media, Inc. f/k/a Penton Media, Inc. filed by Mark Gottsleben (Attachments: #1 Index, #2 Exhibit A-US Agriculture Masterfile (formerly Agbase) from lnforma- Active Subscribers Mailing List, #3 Exhibit B-Privacy: Sales, Rentals of Videos, etc., House Legislative Analysis Section, H.B. No. 5331, Jan. 20, 1989, #4 Exhibit C-The Information Marketplace: Merging and Exchanging Consumer Data (Mar. 13, 2001), #5 Exhibit D-Web's Hot New Commodity: Privacy, WSJ (Feb. 28, 2011), #6 Exhibit E-Statement of FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour (Dec. 7, 2009), #7 Exhibit F-Martha C. White, Big Data Knows What You're Doing Right Now, TIME.com (July 31, 2012), #8 Exhibit G-Natasha Singer, You for Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome, N.Y. Times (June 16, 2012), #9 Exhibit H-Letter from Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Chairman, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to Scott E. Howe, Chief Executive Officer, Acxiom (Oct. 9, 2012), #10 Exhibit I-Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Query Data Brokers About Practices Involving Consumers' Personal Information, Website of Senator Ed Markey (July 24, 2012), #11 Exhibit J-Prize Scams, Federal Trade Commission, #12 Exhibit K-Charles Duhigg, Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist, N.Y. Times, May 20, 2007, #13 Exhibit L- Fraud Against Seniors: Hearing before the Senate Special Committee on Aging (August 10, 2000), #14 Exhibit M- 2014 TRUSTe US Consumer Confidence Privacy Report, TRUSTe, #15 Exhibit N-Joshua Brustein, Start-Ups Seek to Help Users Put a Price on Their Personal Data, N.Y. Times (Feb. 12, 2012), #16 Exhibit O-European Network and Information Security Agency, Study on monetizing privacy (Feb. 27, 2012), #17 Exhibit P- Hann, et al., The Value of Online Information Privacy: An Empirical Investigation (Oct. 2003), #18 Exhibit Q-California's Reader Privacy Act Signed into Law, Electronic Frontier Foundation (Oct. 3, 2011)) (Miller, E.)
September 19, 2022 Opinion or Order FILING FEE PAID re #1 by plaintiff Mark Gottsleben in the amount of $402, receipt number AMIWDC-6848261 (Miller, E.)

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Plaintiff: Mark Gottsleben
Represented By: E. Powell Miller
Represented By: Frank S. Hedin
Represented By: Gregory A. Mitchell
Represented By: Joseph I. Marchese
Represented By: Philip L. Fraietta
Represented By: Sharon S. Almonrode
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Defendant: Informa Media, Inc. f/k/a Penton Media, Inc.
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Defendant: Informa Media, Inc.
Represented By: Ana Tagvoryan
Represented By: Harrison Maxwell Brown
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