California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, AB-2273, “is one of the most expansive efforts to censor online speech since the inception of the internet,” said NetChoice’s response brief Wednesday (docket 23-2969) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court in the appeal of California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) to reverse the preliminary injunction that blocks him from enforcing the statute (see 2312140003).

PHE, owner of adult products website Adam & Eve, sends customers’ private and protected sexual information, plus their IP addresses, to Google Analytics without their consent, alleged a Jan. 3 privacy class action (docket 2:24-cv-01065) removed Wednesday from Los Angeles County Superior Court to U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.

The operator of the NA Weather YouTube channel copied, downloaded and monetized videos belonging to Viral DRM in violation of YouTube and Google AdSense terms of service, alleged a copyright complaint Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00731) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act “protects Americans’ right to privacy,” and the district court’s Nov. 6 opinion dismissing plaintiff Jacob Howard’s complaint against the Republican National Committee (see 2311150003), “must be reversed, so that it continues” to protect that right, said Howard’s opening brief Wednesday (docket 23-3826) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The FCC seeks the dismissal of the petition for review of Maurine and Matthew Molak to vacate the FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing funding for Wi-Fi service and equipment on school buses under the commission’s E-rate program (see 2312200040), according to the commission’s motion Tuesday (docket 23-60641) at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The district court “properly denied” appellant Ganiyu Jaiyeola’s emergency ex parte application for a temporary restraining order to halt Black Friday advertising of the iPhone 15 Pro on his allegations that the device is falsely advertised as a titanium phone when it’s mostly fashioned from aluminum (see 2401080002), said Apple’s answering brief Monday (docket 23-4027) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court in Jaiyeola’s appeal.

Cyber thieves had eight days to exfiltrate confidential personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 4.4 million current and former patients of healthcare provider networks that use HealthEC’s technology services, said a class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-00697) brought by six Tennessee plaintiffs in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark.

John Does stole an Apple email account that Keyvan Samini had controlled and used for more than 12 years, alleged his complaint Tuesday (docket 8:24-cv-00249) against Apple and John Does 1-10 in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana. Samini alleges Apple has contributed to the harm he has suffered by not doing what it could within its "technological ability" to rectify the harm.

Similar class actions filed Tuesday vs. StubHub and SeatGeek by Levi & Korsinsky allege the online ticket purchase sites violated the New York Arts & Cultural Affairs Law by charging fulfillment and service fees that weren’t disclosed to plaintiffs, all New York residents, at the beginning of the purchase process.

Federal officials “engaged in a far-reaching unconstitutional censorship campaign orchestrated to circumvent the First Amendment” by pressuring social media platforms to remove content that the federal government finds “objectionable,” said the right-leaning internet show Louder With Crowder in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief Wednesday in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411) in support of the injunction that bars the officials from coercing the platforms to moderate their content.