Here are Communications Litigation Today's top stories from last week, in case you missed them. Each can be found by searching on its title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.

Bradford Clements, who first sued T-Mobile in November 2022 for damages and injunctive relief from being victimized in eight data breaches in the three years he was a T-Mobile customer (see 2306060047), seeks monetary sanctions against T-Mobile for its failure to comply with the court’s Aug. 2 discovery order. The pro se plaintiff filed a memorandum of points and authorities Wednesday (docket 5:22-cv-07512) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose in support of his motion for sanctions.

Financial Risk Mitigation (FRM) maintained customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) on its computer network in a condition “vulnerable to cyberattacks,” alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-00025) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Louisiana in New Orleans.

U.S. District Judge Jessica Clarke for Southern New York denied the petition of former Amazon third-party seller Jiakeshu Technology to vacate an arbitration award in Amazon’s favor and granted Amazon’s cross-motion to confirm that award, said Clarke’s signed opinion and order Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-10119). In light of Clarke's ruling, a clerk's judgment Wednesday decreed that the case is closed.

Lead generator Response Tree and president Derek Doherty would be banned from making or assisting in making robocalls or calls to numbers on the national do not call registry under a proposed DOJ order for permanent injunction filed Tuesday (docket 8:24-cv-00001) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana. DOJ's complaint was filed Tuesday in the same court.

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.

The secretaries of state of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s Oct. 3 decision and vacate the injunction that bars officials from the White House and four federal agencies from conversing with social media companies about their content moderation policies (see 2310040001). All Democrats, the chief election officers in their states filed the Dec. 26 amicus brief in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411).

Notices from Citrix and Comcast to customers about an Oct. 10 data breach “failed to provide basic details,” said a new class action Wednesday (docket 0:24-cv-60008) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale.

Communications Litigation Today is providing readers with the top 20 stories published in 2023. All articles can be found by searching on the titles or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference numbers.

Pasadena, Texas, seeks the reversal of the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court affirmation of the district court’s judgment that Section 253 of the Telecommunications Act preempts the spacing and undergrounding requirements in the city’s design manual for the installation of small cells and support poles in its public rights of way, said the city’s U.S. Supreme Court cert petition (docket 23-698). The petition was filed Dec. 26 and docketed Thursday, said a clerk's notice Friday.