AT&T moved the U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Orlando to compel the SIM swap claims of plaintiff Al Weiss to arbitration and to stay the case pending the completion of arbitration, said its motion to compel Monday (docket 6:23-cv-00120).

The California Public Utilities Commission unlawfully treated two-thirds of MetroPCS revenue as intrastate, the T-Mobile subsidiary claimed Tuesday at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco (case 3:17-cv-05959-JD). The company said it will move for summary judgment at an April 27 hearing.

Despite tweets from GoodRx co-CEO Doug Hirsch saying the discount prescription medication provider doesn’t gather data and give advertisers its users’ personal health information, tracking technologies on its platform “knowingly and intentionally” intercepted plaintiff Hollis Wilson’s personal medical information, said a Monday class action (docket 4:23-cv-01293), in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

U.S. District Judge Michael Brown for Northern Georgia in Atlanta denied the PBS motion to dismiss plaintiff Jazmine Harris’ class action for failure to state a Video Privacy Protection Act claim, said his signed order Monday (docket 1:22-cv-02456). Harris alleges PBS disclosed her PBS.org personal viewing information to Facebook without her consent, in violation of the VPPA. Her proposed class includes all PBS.org subscribers who had their personal viewing information disclosed to Facebook.

By installing the Facebook Pixel code on its website, healthcare company Aspirus “effectively planted a bug” on plaintiff “John Doe’s” web browsers and forced him and other class members to “unknowingly disclose their private, sensitive and confidential health-related communications” with Aspirus to Facebook, alleged a Friday class action (docket 3:23-cv-00171) in U.S. District Court for Western Wisconsin in Madison.

The four causes of action plaintiff George Schwarz seeks to assert against Nissan North America arising from his loss of connected vehicle services through obsolete telematics equipment in his Nissan vehicles should be resolved through individual arbitration, said the automaker. Nissan filed a motion Monday (docket 3:22-cv-00933) in U.S. District Court for Middle Tennessee in Nashville to dismiss Schwarz's complaint, or in the alternative, to stay the proceedings and compel the dispute to arbitration.

Meta seeks the dismissal of a Jan. 27 complaint alleging it’s engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” against two private Facebook groups, called Wise Guys I and Wise Guys II, in violation of the First Amendment and the Texas social media law HB 20 (see 2301300023), said Meta’s motion Monday (docket 3:23-cv-00217) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

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The FCC’s September 2018 small-cells declaratory ruling preempting aspects of local and municipal cell tower permit reviews (see 2210070046) is a “substantive rule” that shouldn’t be applied retroactively to the 2017 Roswell, Georgia, decision denying T-Mobile’s application to build a tower in a residential neighborhood, said U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg for Northern Georgia in Atlanta in a signed opinion and order Friday (docket 1:10-cv-01464).

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Louisiana's Western District in Monroe largely denied a motion Monday to dismiss a censorship complaint from the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana seeking an injunction against President Joe Biden, several federal officials and companies.