Lake County, Montana, just north of Missoula, violated Vertical Bridge’s “federal rights” under the Telecommunications Act when it improperly denied applications to build a cell tower to remedy “an existing, significant, and well-known gap” in wireless coverage near the Finley Point area of Polson, alleged the telecom services provider in a complaint Wednesday (docket 9:23-cv-00091) in U.S. District Court for Montana in Missoula.

Two T-Mobile customers allege the carrier’s “gross negligence in hiring, training, and supervising its employees” enabled a SIM card swap that led to a loss of $130,000, said a Wednesday complaint (docket 1:23-cv-06159) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.

“Partial input foreclosure,” such as if Microsoft were to curtail the flow of Activision Blizzard video game titles to competing console platforms if its Activision buy closes, but without cutting off supply completely, “is harmful to competition,” said 18 antitrust law professors in an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 23-15992) supporting the FTC’s appeal to block the transaction (see 2307110031).

X implemented software to police pornographic and other “not-safe-for-work” images uploaded to Twitter without adequately informing individuals who interacted with the social media platform “that it collects and/or stores their biometric identifiers in every photograph containing a face that is uploaded to Twitter,” alleges a Monday complaint (docket 1:23-cv-05449) in Cook County Circuit Court, Chancery division, Chicago. X, formerly known as Twitter, did so in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), alleged the complaint.

Despite Amazon’s efforts to combat fake reviews, those reviews persist through schemes like those of ProAmazonService that offer free products in exchange for five-star reviews, said Amazon's Aug. 10 lawsuit (docket 23-2-14891-6) in Washington Superior Court in King County.

The parties in the case in which Legacy Equity Advisors accuses AT&T of violating Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act for blocking the private equity firm from bidding on DirecTV and other divested AT&T assets due to its African American ownership want the U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas to place the case on a trial docket for mid-February 2025, said their joint status report and scheduling proposal Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00979). AT&T’s July 17 motion to dismiss called Legacy’s allegations as “offensive” as they are “baseless” (see 2307180002).

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Santa Fe, New Mexico, denying wireless ISP NMSurf's challenge that the city’s 2% franchise fee for installing a wireline fiber network in a public right-of-way is preempted by sections 253 and 332 of the Communications Act, in an order and judgment Tuesday (docket 22-2131).

The FCC hasn’t made an effort to meet the four-year due date for its 2018 quadrennial review, and its arguments that Congress didn’t specify a deadline (see 2308080062) are “a recipe for eternal stasis” and would “justify perpetual delay,” said NAB in a response filing in its mandamus proceeding at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (docket 23-1120) (see 2304250029). “It is unreasonable for the Commission to have sat on its hands for years.”

The “vast breadth” of centralization plaintiff Bruce Bailey sought in his Friday reply (see 2308140020) means parties in cases associated with MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation that don't name multidistrict litigation (MDL) defendants Progress Software Corp. (PSC), Ipswitch or Pension Benefit Information (PBI), and who aren't monitoring the MDL docket, “had no way of knowing that their cases are at risk of being swept up in a sprawling MDL,” said plaintiff Carlos Harding in a Monday interested party response (docket 3083) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). Harding urged the JPML to deny Bailey’s motion for transfer and centralization of related actions filed July 6.

The “majority view” among the appellate courts requires “consideration of the economies of scale when addressing attorneys’ fees awarded in class action settlements exceeding $100 million,” said the statement of issues filed Monday (docket 23-2744) in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by objector-appellant Cassie Hampe. She’s pursuing the appeal to protest what she argues are “windfall” attorneys’ fees doled out in the class settlement in the 47-case multidistrict litigation arising from T-Mobile’s 2021 data breach.