Mississippi, by enacting its House Bill 1126, is the latest state to attempt to “unconstitutionally regulate” minors’ access to online speech, “and impair adults’ access along the way,” said NetChoice’s complaint Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00170) against Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) in U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi.

K-12 educational platform Securly “knowingly and willfully surveilled” student activity on their school-issued devices and collected their geolocation data without proper consent, alleged a privacy class action Wednesday (docket 0:24-cv-02159) in U.S. District Court for Minnesota in St. Paul.

Public sector software company Tyler Technologies maintained and used the plaintiff's and class members’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a “reckless manner,” a negligence complaint filed Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00425) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Marshall alleged.

NetChoice seeks an injunction blocking Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr (R) from enforcing Georgia Act 564, an amendment to the state’s Inform Consumers Act, when it takes effect July 1, said NetChoice’s complaint Thursday in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta.

Major textbook publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier and McGraw Hill are accusing Google of either direct copyright infringement, or contributory and vicarious infringement, plus violations of New York General Business Law, said their complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-04274) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Intel and 13 officers and board members breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders and the company by making “materially false and misleading statements” about its contract chipmaking foundry business, Intel Foundry Services (IFS), alleged a Securities Exchange Act complaint (docket 1:24-cv-00651) in U.S. District Court for Delaware.

The DOJ filed a civil forfeiture action Wednesday to recover $5.3 million of funds it traced to an email scheme targeting an unnamed Massachusetts workers union, said DOJ in a news release Wednesday. It seeks to forfeit assets that constitute the proceeds of wire fraud, property involved in money laundering, and property traceable to such property under 18 U.S.C. Section 981(a)(1)(A).

Signet Jewelers, which operates Zales stores nationally, beckons customers to sign up for its email promotions to entice them to visit its stores, without disclosing that it embeds those emails with “hidden spy pixel trackers,” alleged plaintiff Claudette Torrez’s class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-01332) in U.S. District Court for Arizona.

Privacy implications likely will play a significant role in DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple over its alleged monopoly in the smartphone market, said Temple University associate law professor Erika Douglas on a webinar Tuesday produced by George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School.

The FCC has an “affirmative legal obligation” under Sections 552 and 553 of the Administrative Procedure Act “to make its proposed and final rules readily available to the public without charge,” despite the process known as incorporation by reference (IBR), said iFixit, Public Resource and Make Community in their reply brief Tuesday (docket 23-1311) at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.