Factory Mutual Insurance seeks the dismissal of Comcast Spectacor’s COVID-19 insurance complaint for failure to state a claim, while Spectacor seeks a stay of the proceedings until the final resolution of two similar cases on appeal now pending before Pennsylvania Supreme Court, said the nearly simultaneous Factory Mutual and Spectacor motions Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-02476) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

California’s $93 million settlement with Google resolves a multiyear investigation into the tech company’s location-privacy practices, said Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) in a Thursday news release. The California Department of Justice determined Google was ” deceiving users by collecting, storing, and using their location data for consumer profiling and advertising purposes without informed consent,” Bonta said.

Social media platforms’ AI-driven user recommendation tools are facilitating and creating connections between minors and “complete strangers,” fueling an “unprecedented mental health crisis,” said a Sept. 12 complaint (docket 238-cv-04270) in California Superior Court for Los Angeles County.

American Tower and its Ulysses subsidiary, plus Verizon and Alltel, removed to U.S. District Court for Northern Indiana in South Bend Thursday an Aug. 16 complaint filed in Elkhart Superior Court in which plaintiff Debra Brown seeks to nullify the wireless communications easement on her residential property in Goshen, Indiana, and to exclude the defendants from the parcel of real estate that’s “burdened” by the easement, said their notice of removal (docket 3:23-cv-00842).

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refreshed his free speech complaint against YouTube and Google to wrap in the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s Sept. 8 comments in the pending Missouri v. Biden First Amendment case, said his Tuesday amended complaint (docket 3:23-cv-03880) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

Eight former FTC and DOJ antitrust enforcers from Democratic and Republican administrations asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the district court's denial of the FTC's motion for a preliminary injunction on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy (see 2307110031). Their brief was one of seven amici briefs filed Wednesday (docket 23-15992), all in opposition to the FTC's merger challenge on appeal.

The social media injunction imposed July 4 by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty (see 2307050042) and modified, affirmed and vacated in part Sept. 8 by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2309110001) “flouts bedrock principles of Article III, the First Amendment, and equity,” said the solicitor general’s U.S. Supreme Court application Thursday (docket 23A243) for a stay, pending resolution of the government’s forthcoming cert petition challenging the injunction on constitutional grounds.

The Aug. 9 class action in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri in which plaintiff Michelle Blankenship alleges T-Mobile collected from customers a “city license” or "utility” tax it wasn't authorized to collect (see 2308100031) is “the exact same lawsuit” she filed nearly a year ago in which a state court compelled her claims to arbitration, said T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-00561).

The U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation should deny plaintiff Bruce Bailey’s motion for centralization and transfer of related actions in MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, said an interested party response Tuesday (docket 3083), opposing Bailey’s push for centralization in U.S. District Court for Minnesota.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein for Southern New York in Manhattan approved the stipulation between Comcast Cable and MaxLinear and their attorneys that assures Comcast will be able to continue sourcing MaxLinear chips for its broadband gateways at least through late May, said Hellerstein’s signed order Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-04436).