Seth Lesser, one of the lead attorneys for plaintiffs in the suit, said several lawsuits filed by individuals in federal courts across the US were consolidated in the Southern District of New York. Cookies are small data files sent by a Web server to the computer of a site visitor and stored on the user's hard drive.
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Plaintiffs alleged that DoubleClick improperly used or monitored confidential information of computer users in delivering advertisements on the Internet, according to court documents. US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald dismissed the federal Class-action lawsuit against DoubleClick Thursday. The judge's ruling went on to say, in part, that she found no evidence that Congress intended to prohibit the type of business practices DoubleClick engaged in. We think the judge got some things wrong factually and with what the statutes provide. He said the judge's decision may be appealed, and that several other cases at the state level will continue.