Sondra Sweeney v. Paramount Global

Summary

The United States District Court for the Central District of California remanded this putative class action to the Los Angeles Superior Court for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. The court held that the plaintiffs failed to establish Article III standing because they did not allege a credible threat that Paramount Global would enforce the challenged Terms of Use against them. The court deemed all other pending federal motions moot.

Holdings

1. Plaintiffs lacked Article III standing because they failed to allege or demonstrate a credible threat that Paramount Global would enforce the challenged Terms of Use against them and failed to show with concrete detail that they intended to violate those terms.
2. Remand, rather than dismissal, was mandatory because the federal court lacked Article III subject-matter jurisdiction.

Questions Presented

1. Whether Plaintiffs established Article III standing to pursue their pre-enforcement challenge to Paramount Global's Terms of Use.
2. Whether the action had to be remanded to state court because the federal court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction.
3. Whether the remaining motions should be resolved after the court determined that Article III standing was absent.

Disposition

remanded