After steadily chipping away at claims that online video provider Hulu LLC broke privacy laws by sharing users’ viewing histories with Facebook and others, Irell & Manella’s Robert Schwartz and Victor Jih have closed the book on the case.
That ending looked less than certain early in the litigation, in which Hulu faced billions of dollars in potential damages. The plaintiffs lawyers, led by Scott Kamber of KamberLaw, brought the putative class action in 2011 under the Video Privacy Protection Act, which prohibits a “videotape service provider” from disclosing consumers’ personal information to third parties. (When the case started, Schwartz and Jih were at O’Melveny & Myers. The two, who declined to comment, joined Irell this past May.)
