{"id":64620,"date":"2025-12-18T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64620\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:33:10","slug":"pennsylvania-hospital-system-gets-dismissal-of-pixel-class-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64620\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Hospital System Gets Dismissal of Pixel Class Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals no longer faces a class suit that was severed from the larger Meta Platforms health pixel tracking litigation pending in federal court. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the plaintiffs\u2019 obligation to demonstrate standing, and here they informed the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that they failed to meet the criteria to support their claims. The claims are dismissed without prejudice but there won\u2019t be leave to amend, Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/rufe-cynthia-m\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia M. Rufe<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>After the court <a data-terminal-id=\"SKOSC8DWRGG0\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/patients-advance-pixel-suit-against-pennsylvania-hospital-system\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declined<\/a> to dismiss the lawsuit\u2014then in its third iteration\u2014in 2024, counsel for the plaintiffs let TJUH know of the deficiency\u201cOver &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals no longer faces a class suit that was severed from the larger Meta Platforms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34434,34433,24410,34432,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-64620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-academic-medical-centers","9":"tag-class-actions","10":"tag-discovery","11":"tag-dismissal","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","14":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}