Like the states that stepped in to prevent discrimination in “the last great communication revolution,” Texas enacted HB-20 to address discrimination by social media platforms, said the state attorney general's office in its opening brief at the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday (docket 22-555) to affirm the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision upholding the statute’s constitutionality.

Social media companies “are going to keep committing deliberate child safety violations just as long as they can continue raking in billions in profits off kids,” said Tech Oversight Project Executive Director Sacha Haworth in a Thursday news release.

The Montana Attorney General's office needs a 30-day deadline extension to file the opening brief in its 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court appeal to vacate the district court’s preliminary injunction that blocks AG Austin Knudsen (R) from enforcing SB-419, Montana’s statewide TikTok ban (see 2401040002), said the office’s consent motion Wednesday (docket 24-34).

Comcast and Citrix have the resources “to take seriously the obligation” to protect customers’ personally identifiable information (PII), but they “failed to invest the time or resources necessary to protect the PII” of Raymond Goodrow and class members who are victims of Citrix’s October data breach, said a class action Wednesday (docket 0:24-cv-60100) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale.

An Apple customer has been denied access to 30 years’ worth of his data because Apple allowed hackers to exploit a known flaw in the company’s data security that allows unauthorized third parties to gain access to victims’ accounts and change the recovery key, alleged a complaint Tuesday (docket 5:24-cv-00272) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared receptive to industry arguments that the court should overturn, or at least narrow, the Chevron doctrine, which gives agencies like the FCC and FTC deference in interpreting laws that Congress passes. The court heard oral argument Wednesday for more than 3.5 hours in two cases challenging Chevron deference, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Commerce. Both concern fishing regulations and don’t touch directly on communications regulation.

Wisconsin Bell failed to persuade the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to grant its petition for an en banc rehearing of an August decision reversing and remanding a lower court ruling regarding how much the company charged schools and libraries through the FCC's E-rate program (see 2308020067). The opinion, released Tuesday in case 22-1515, noted that no judge sought a vote for a rehearing.

The amended complaint in a copyright lawsuit alleging Universal Music Group, Sony Music and other labels fraudulently sent takedown notices to YouTube should be dismissed with prejudice for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted, said defendants UMG, Sony Music and others Friday in a motion to dismiss (docket 8:23-cv-01942) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.

Plaintiff Jesus Marcos lost “hundreds of thousands of dollars in money and cryptocurrency” as a result of T-Mobile’s negligence in a SIM swap, alleged his 18-count fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 5:24-cv-00085) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Riverside.

Internet platforms enjoy “enormous power over public discourse,” and Florida’s social media law, SB-7072, is “aimed at preventing the platforms from misusing that power,” said the Florida attorney general's U.S. Supreme Court brief Tuesday (docket 22-227) seeking to reverse the 11th Circuit's decision to facially invalidate SB-7072's neutrality and hosting provisions and its individualized-disclosure requirement.