The investigation of the potential impact of AT&T’s lead cables and the cost of "remediation" is ongoing, and the full impact that AT&T’s wrongdoing will have on the company “is yet unknown,” alleged AT&T shareholder Leon Peng in his complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-00132) in U.S. District Court for Delaware in Wilmington.

A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the 5th District of Texas in Dallas conditionally granted a request from relators Disney, Hulu and Netflix for mandamus relief following the Dallas County district court’s denial of their Rule 91a motion to dismiss, said the panel's opinion Thursday (docket 05-23-00485-cv). The panel also denied as moot a motion for vacating its order staying proceedings the real parties in interest filed.

HyperFund, pitched as a “decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem” for cryptocurrency asset market participants, was a $1.7 billion “pyramid and Ponzi scheme,” alleged the SEC in a complaint Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00296) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Baltimore. Defendants in the lawsuit are Xue Samuel Lee, an Australian national residing in Dubai, and Brenda Chunga, who lived in Severna Park, Maryland, during the relevant period, it said.

Comcast requested Wednesday that In Re: Citrix Software Customer Data Security Breach Litigation be renamed "In Re: Citrix Bleed Vulnerability And Comcast Breach Litigation" to "accurately reflect the parties and issues,” in a motion (docket 3099) for miscellaneous relief before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). Comcast also wrote in opposition to a de facto motion for miscellaneous relief filed by Citrix in its response to a motion for transfer.

Mr. Cooper told customers in November that it disabled its payment portal and other “critical IT systems” due to a “system/technical outage,” but its systems were actually “infiltrated by a cyberattack,” alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00247) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

The U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington in Richland should deny Barbara and Everett Knudson's motion to intervene on the side of Walla Walla, Washington, in the city’s cell tower dispute with AT&T (see 2401170024), said AT&T’s opposition Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-05162).

VoIP provider Bandwidth played a “material role” in a scheme to steal money from plaintiff Don Gissell in a “love scam” involving co-defendant Jane Doe, alleged Gissell's fraud complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-20399) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

The “plain, unambiguous” terms of Core Communications’ tariffs obligate AT&T to pay for all 8YY “rate elements” and for all 8YY services that Core has provided “for the ultimate benefit of AT&T’s toll-free customers,” said Core’s opening brief Tuesday (docket 23-3022) in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court to reverse the district court’s finding of summary judgment in AT&T’s favor.

Four more class actions -- three against Progress Software Corp. (PSC) and one against Health Care Service Corp. -- were transferred to In Re: MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation in conditional transfer order 28 (CTO-28), said a Wednesday Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation clerk order. The order is stayed seven days from entry to allow any party to file a notice of opposition, it said.

The FCC’s Nov. 20 order, published Jan. 22 in the Federal Register, purports to implement congressional “instruction” to facilitate equal broadband access under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, but it gives the commission “unprecedented authority to regulate the broadband internet economy,” said the Ohio Telecom Association’s (OTA) petition for review Tuesday (docket 24-3072) in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.