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The July 2025 Kansas ruling is a useful precedent in the opposite direction from most findings in this tracker: a judge dismissed a proposed Video Privacy Protection Act class action on the reasoning that a movie…
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The July 2025 Kansas ruling is a useful precedent in the opposite direction from most findings in this tracker: a judge dismissed a proposed Video Privacy Protection Act class action on the reasoning that a movie theatre is not a 'video tape service provider' within the meaning of the 1988 statute. That matters because VPPA has become the most productive consumer privacy tool of the streaming era, providing statutory damages without proof of harm - and this ruling marks a boundary on how far a statute drafted around video rental stores can be stretched. AMC still runs website tracking and a large loyalty programme; the ruling narrows one statute, not the conduct.
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- Last verified2026-08-04
Case status. Private litigation; no sources are on file yet, so no legal tier is assigned.
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected.
Data sharing
NOTABLE COURT RULING (July 2025, Kansas federal court): a judge DISMISSED a proposed class action accusing AMC of unlawfully sharing website visitors' data with Facebook, specifically agreeing with the Ninth Circuit and multiple other courts that MOVIE THEATERS ARE NOT COVERED by the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) — a genuinely important legal distinction from the VPPA cases that HAVE succeeded against streaming services elsewhere in this tracker (Chick-fil-A's video content, Paramount+): the VPPA specifically protects 'video tape service providers,' and courts have found a movie theater chain's WEBSITE tracking doesn't fall within that definition even though the underlying business (showing movies) seems conceptually similar.
Fees and billing
HIDDEN-FEE LITIGATION: AMC SETTLED a class action alleging it violated New York's Arts and Cultural Affairs Law by not properly disclosing its online 'convenience' fee — New York-theater customers who paid the fee between Aug. 29, 2022 and Jan. 16, 2024 could claim $7 or a free one-year AMC Stubs Premiere membership (claims deadline Nov. 8, 2024, per Consumer Action). A new proposed class action filed in late Aug. 2026 by a Pennsylvania moviegoer alleges AMC still adds the fee late in checkout outside New York, where no all-in-price law applies (Kelley Drye, Sept. 1, 2026; allegations only) (the same law driving numerous similar settlements against Fandango, Alamo Drafthouse, ATG Tickets, and other ticketing platforms documented in this same research — see Fandango row for the fullest treatment of this cross-industry pattern).
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
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| Privacy policy amctheatres.com/privacy-policy | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service amctheatres.com/terms-of-use | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
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State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.