Mandate Issued After VPPA Consumer Status Ruling Affirmed By 2nd Circuit

( May 22, 2026, 2:12 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Missouri woman’s Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) putative class lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media LLC (NBCU) for allegedly improperly sharing her video-watching activities with third parties was properly dismissed for a third time by a federal judge in New York, a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, opining that the woman’s “allegations are materially indistinguishable from the claims” in Solomon v. Flipps Media, Inc., which “is binding precedent in” the Second Circuit....