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.

The seven months Norton Healthcare waited between learning of a May 9 data breach in its servers and its Dec. 8 notification to affected patients deprived plaintiff Logan Aldridge and class members of the ability to “promptly mitigate potential adverse consequences” resulting from it, alleged Aldridge's class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00025) in U.S. District Court for Kentucky in Louisville.

Defendant Charlie Green knowingly and willingly breached a licensing agreement by asserting a copyright claim to a musical composition he didn’t own, said a copyright infringement complaint Friday (docket 7:24-cv-00256) brought by Jaze Ltd. in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in White Plains.

Jane Hart aims to hold Mr. Cooper Group mortgage company and parent Nationstar Mortgage accountable for the harms it caused, and will continue to cause, to nearly 15 million individuals affected by a “massive and preventable” Oct. 31 data breach, said the Tennessee resident’s class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00093) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

U.S. District Judge Damon Leichty for Northern Indiana in South Bend denied plaintiff Donald Nicodemus’ motion for a permanent injunction that would have blocked Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) from enforcing HB-1186, the state’s “buffer law,” said the judge’s signed opinion and order Friday (docket 3:23-cv-00744).

Greg Bostard, the former Comcast utility pole worker who wants Verizon to pay for his medical monitoring due to his 29 years of exposure to Verizon’s toxic lead cables (see 2308240005), amended his class action Friday to assert that he’s not seeking personal injury damages but rather relief for the “present economic injury” he suffers by having to pay for his own lead-poisoning tests.

Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.

Healthcare platform provider Navvis & Co. failed to protect Richard Lilly’s personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI) in a “preventable” cyberattack, alleged Lilly's class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-00063) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis.

Amazon seeks monetary sanctions against Julie Guo, counsel for former Amazon third-party seller Shenzhen Zongheng Domain Network, for submitting legal arguments in Zongheng’s May 8 motion to remand a vacatur petition to New York Supreme Court that she knew to be “legally frivolous.” Amazon filed its memorandum of law Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-03334) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan, seeking the sanctions under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Another shareholder derivative lawsuit seeks to hold AT&T’s current and former CEOs and chief financial officers, plus 12 current and former board members, accountable for allegedly covering up between March 2020 and July 27, 2023, what they knew about the existence and prevalence of toxic lead cables in AT&T’s possession, in violation of the Securities Exchange Act. The latest suit over legacy lead cables joins others filed in recent months against AT&T and Verizon (see 2308020046).