Spotify customers who bought the company’s Car Thing device are now left with “nothing more than a paperweight,” alleged three customers' class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-04077) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.

Black candidates lose Georgia Public Service Commission elections due to “ordinary, colorblind partisan politics,” Georgia said in a Tuesday opposition brief at the U.S. Supreme Court (case 23-1060). Don’t grant a group of Black voters’ cert petition on a “splitless dispute regarding the distinctive structure” of the Georgia PSC, the state argued. Among other problems, petitioners failed to propose a reasonable alternative election method that could be shown to be better, it said.

Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.

Genesys Cloud Services pushed up the shutoff date for its cloud services by nine months, to October, and has refused to provide requested assurances that cloud services would continue to the agreed date of July 2025, alleged a breach-of-contract complaint Friday (docket 1:24-cv-11379) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

Despite representing in a Feb. 14 news release that it was positioned well financially for fiscal 2024, defendants Fastly and its CEO Todd Nightingale misled investors even as the company was “experiencing a significant deceleration in growth,” a securities fraud class action alleged Friday (docket 3:24-cv-03170) in U.S. District Court for Northern California.

WarnerMedia Direct shares personal data of HBO Max users in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), an April 4 complaint alleged (docket 4:24-cv-00043). The complaint was removed Friday from General Sessions Court of Coffee County Tennessee to U.S. District Court for Eastern Tennessee in Winchester.

Google unlawfully obtained information about individuals who applied for or checked the status of a disability parking placard on the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) website, a privacy class action Friday (docket 5:24-cv-03176) alleged in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Programmatic advertising firm Direct Digital Holdings and three of its executives made false or misleading statements and failed to disclose material facts about the financial impact of a “'cookie-less’ advertising environment,” alleged a securities fraud class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-01940) in U.S. District Court for Southern Texas in Houston.

A data breach this month at Ascension Health prevented patients from completing health-related tasks and puts them at risk of future harm, said a negligence class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-00724) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis.

Warner Bros. “for years” has extensively copied and used The Production Pit’s (TPP) sound recordings for a Harry Potter-themed plush toy in regions where it didn’t have authorization, alleged a copyright infringement suit Wednesday (docket 5:24-cv-01097) in U.S. District Court for Central California.