TrueAccord and AT&T Mobility falsely attempted to collect on a debt that was already paid, alleged Mina Shenoda in a complaint Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00216) in U.S. District Court for Northern Ohio in Cleveland.

The parties in a privacy class action vs. NBCUniversal and Peacock TV haven't engaged in any settlement discussions and anticipate a five-day trial, they said in a joint letter and proposed scheduling order Monday (docket 1:23-cv-09433). They were submitted under a Jan. 22 order and notice of initial conference from U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Grant Herrmann, the law firm representing authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage in their Jan. 5 copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, is being sidelined by counsel for the other 29 authors and the Authors Guild, it wrote U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein for Southern New York in Manhattan in a letter Monday (docket 1:23-cv-08292).

Ganiyu Jaiyeola, the former Apple metallurgist whose appeal seeks injunctive relief to block Apple, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon from advertising the iPhone 15 Pro as a titanium device (see 2401080002), “is a pro se serial litigant who has been sanctioned in multiple jurisdictions across the country for repeatedly filing baseless petitions,” said AT&T’s answering brief Monday (docket 23-4027) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This appeal “is similarly meritless and abusive,” it said.

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni for Southern New York in Manhattan granted Warner Bros. Discovery's motion to dismiss a class action brought by two WBD shareholders alleging that false and misleading statements were in the offering materials that preceded the transaction from which WBD emerged (see 2302160002), said her signed opinion and order Monday (docket 1:22-cv-08171). She dismissed the case with prejudice.

NovaTech, registered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, its executives and directors, and Does 1-500 conspired to commit fraud via a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme targeted to investors “with little to no experience” in trading crypto assets and foreign exchange, alleged a racketeering class action Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill for the District of Idaho in Coeur d’Alene denied Kochava’s motion to dismiss the FTC’s first amended complaint in a privacy lawsuit over geolocation data, said his signed order Saturday (docket 2:22-cv-00377).

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Yout’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act appeal against the Recording Industry Association of America “involves a number of novel questions arising out of the three distinct provisions” contained in the statute’s Section 1201, said Yout’s counsel, Evan Fray-Witzer of Ciampa Fray-Witzer, during 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals oral argument Monday (docket 22-2760).

The censorship conduct of officials from the White House and four federal agencies “fundamentally transforms online discourse and renders entire viewpoints on great social and political questions virtually unspeakable on social media,” said Friday’s response brief (23-411) at the U.S. Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri in support of the injunction that bars those officials from coercing the social media platforms to moderate their content.