ISP FirstDigital has blocked Comcast from exercising its rights under federal law to construct and operate its cable systems and connect requesting customers to its cable and other services in two Utah residential developments, alleged a Cable Act complaint Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00249) in U.S. District Court for Central Utah in Salt Lake City.

Home Depot “deceptively embedded spy tracking pixels in marketing emails” it sent to consumers, alleged a privacy class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-00730) in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Phoenix. The suit alleges Home Depot and tracking software company Validity violated Arizona’s Telephone, Utility and Communication Service Records Act (A.R.S).

Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy seeks the dismissal of Thomas Grant’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action for lack of standing, failure to join the correct party and failure to state a claim, said his motion Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-00281) in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus.

A school bus is neither a classroom nor a library and that “makes short work of this case under basic principles of administrative law,” the opening brief said Tuesday (docket 23-60641) in support of a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals petition to defeat the FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040).

LoanDepot’s “lack of oversight” of its security controls and implementation of enhanced security measures "only after” a January data breach are “inexcusable,” said a class action Tuesday (docket 4:24-cv-00239) in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri in Kansas City.

AT&T misled Discovery by “materially overstating WarnerMedia’s financial performance and misrepresenting and concealing the severity of WarnerMedia’s financial and business difficulties,” alleged a securities fraud suit Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-00420) in U.S. District Court for Delaware in Wilmington. The suit names AT&T, CEO John Stankey and Warner Bros. Discovery as defendants.

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Despite AT&T’s assertion in 2021 that a hacked database containing the personally identifiable information (PII) of 70 million AT&T customers “does not appear to have come from our systems,” three years later “the same customer data from 2021 is no longer just for sale,” but it also “has been fully exposed on the Dark Web,” alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-01414) in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta.

Since AT&T announced Saturday that “data-specific fields” were part of a data set involving 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers released on the dark web March 16, nine negligence class actions have been filed in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas, including five by Kendall Law.

The U.S. District Court for Virginia’s Oct. 26 ruling dismissing Hanan Elatr Khashoggi’s privacy case against NSO Group Technologies and Q Cyber Technologies for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction was “in error,” said Khashoggi's opening brief (docket 23-2234) in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday.