Security vulnerabilities that enabled Progress Software Corp.'s (PSC) May data breach existed as far back as 2021, said plaintiffs’ Kim Siflinger of Washington and Randy Kiyabu of California in a Thursday fraud class action (docket 1:23-cv-11782) against PSC and Pension Benefit Information (PBI) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.

AT&T and DirecTV reported, and continue to report, a noncustomer to credit reporting agency Experian for nonpayment of bills he doesn’t owe, alleged plaintiff John Gerling in a Thursday fraud lawsuit (docket CL-23-3024) in Texas County Court in Hidalgo.

Apple falsely promoted iOS 15 as improving the performance of older devices like the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus when in fact it didn’t work at all well on those devices, and the company should have known that, alleged nine iPhone 7 owners in a fraud class action Wednesday (docket 5:23-cv-03882) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

“YouTube applies its Community Guidelines independently, transparently, and consistently, regardless of political viewpoint," emailed Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda Thursday, responding to a freedom of speech lawsuit (docket 3:23-cv-03880) filed Wednesday by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. Kennedy's claims are "meritless and we look forward to refuting them," Castaneda said.

The July 24 letter from Pasadena, Texas, denying Crown Castle’s contentions that the city’s design manual “overtly discriminates” against small-cell technology (see 2307250038) isn’t a proper Rule 28(j) letter because it doesn’t “identify any new legal authorities,” Crown Castle wrote the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a responding letter Wednesday (docket 22-20454). “Even worse, it is incorrect,” it said.

Progress Software Corp. (PSC) and Pension Benefit Information (PBI) “owed duties” to plaintiff Rosemary Mosqueda and class members, said a Tuesday class action (docket 0:23-cv-02278) in U.S. District Court for Minnesota about a May 27 data breach affecting PSI’s MOVEit software.

Defendants Meta, Google, Snap and ByteDance “intentionally design” their social media platforms to entice “still developing minors” into spending “ever increasing amounts of time on their platforms,” alleged the Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, district attorney in a Wednesday complaint (docket 3:23-cv-01283) on behalf of the county and commonwealth in U.S. District Court for Middle Pennsylvania in Scranton.

The same lawyer who filed the securities fraud class action Friday against AT&T over the carrier’s alleged failure to disclose that its telecom cables were covered with toxic lead (see 2307300002) took aim with a similar complaint Tuesday against Verizon, its CEO Hans Vestberg and Matt Ellis, who left his chief financial officer role May 1.

Plaintiff Jerome Edmondson, CEO of EDN Global, attempted to avoid written contracts with AT&T when he tried to “plead around” them “by omitting a breach claim and instead asserting a host of tort claims,” said AT&T Tuesday in its memorandum in support (docket 3:23-cv-00355) of its motion to dismiss Edmondson and EDN's amended complaint for failure to state a claim.

The opposition from plaintiffs Justin Davis and Gary Davis to HP’s motion to dismiss their fraud class action (see 2307030008) fails to address “controlling” 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals precedent, or the guidance provided by the district court’s prior decisions, said HP’s reply brief Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-02114) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland in support of dismissal. The plaintiffs allege the defective trackpads in their HP Omen laptops rendered their computers unusable without an external mouse.