Google’s conversational AI tool, Bard, introduced in March, is “inherently flawed” because data that's used for creating the algorithm isn't "precise," making the answers given to user prompts "inaccurate,” alleged pro se plaintiff Jeffrey Ito in a complaint Monday (docket 24PS-cv-00061) in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

BMW of West St. Louis defended against the allegations of Telephone Consumer Protection Act wrongdoing in plaintiff Daniel Human’s Dec. 14 first amended complaint by launching into an unusually lengthy attack on the statute’s constitutionality.

NetChoice hailed Tuesday’s decision in Columbus, Ohio, granting its motion for a temporary restraining order to block Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) from enforcing the state’s Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act when it takes effect Jan. 15 (see 2401050055).

Three Comcast Xfinity customers in Florida sued the company Monday under the Cable Act for not protecting their personally identifiable information (PII) in the October “Citrix Bleed” data breach, said their class action Monday (docket 1:24-cv-20064) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale.

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Conditional transfer order 23 (CTO-23) in In Re: Moveit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation (docket 3083) is vacated, said a clerk’s notice Monday before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, saying two actions versus Pension Benefit Information in the CTO were remanded to Florida state court.

The plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation arising from T-Mobile’s 2022 data breach are to file their “master consolidated complaint” by Feb. 22, said an order signed Monday (docket 4:23-MD-03073) by U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes for Western Missouri in Kansas City. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation assigned Wimes the MDL in a June 2 order (see 2306050001).

Milwaukee agrees with Verizon that the crowds expected in the Deer District for the 2024 Republican National Convention in July “will cause significant wireless service gaps and serious public safety risks,” said Verizon’s reply brief Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01581) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The brief is in support of Verizon's motion for a preliminary injunction to force the city’s approval of permits for the installation of poles and small cells outside the Fiserv Forum (see 2312050022).

The personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 1.3 million individuals was compromised due to a “critical flaw” in Citrix’s NetScaler software, alleged a class action Monday (docket 0:24-cv-60048) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale. The suit names Citrix, its customer LoanCare and LoanCare parent company Fidelity National Financial (FNF).

Even in “hard cases,” courts must exercise independent judgment and determine the “original public meaning” of federal statutes “based on their best understanding of statutory text, structure, history, purpose, and precedent,” but Chevron “flouts these principles,” said the petitioners’ U.S. Supreme Court reply brief Friday (docket 22-1219) in Relentless v. Commerce Department in support of overruling Chevron.