NetChoice opposes as unjustifiable the Nov. 30 motion of Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) to deny NetChoice’s motion for summary judgment against SB-396, the state’s age-verification Social Media Safety Act, or at least delay consideration of it until discovery is complete (see 2312010039), said NetChoice’s opposition brief Monday (docket 5:23-cv-05105) in U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville.

Adams Bank & Trust maintained customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a “reckless manner” vulnerable to cyberattacks, alleged a class action Monday (docket 7:23-cv-05005) in U.S. District Court for Nebraska in North Platte.

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Four Liberty employees accessed a customer's account about 30 times from December 2020 to June 2022 without her authorization and repeatedly failed to safeguard her personally identifiable information (PII) and customer proprietary network information (CPNI), alleged a SIM swap complaint Monday (docket 3:23-cv-01613) in U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico in San Juan.

The SEC sued three connected companies and their CEO for a “staggering” fraud scheme involving a private Nigerian company, Tingo Mobile, that purportedly sourced mobile handsets and services to “millions of farmers” but had “no meaningful operations or customers,” alleged the complaint Monday (docket 1:23-cv-10928) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy has resulted in “enhanced competition across the mobile wireless service industry,” not less, just as DOJ’s Antitrust Division, the FCC, two federal judges and others predicted that it would, said T-Mobile’s answer Monday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago to the antitrust class action by seven AT&T and Verizon customers alleging the transaction caused their own wireless rates to soar.

Publishers Clearing House (PCH) sells customers’ private purchase information without providing prior notice of the disclosures, in violation of Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act (NISNPIA), alleged a class action Friday (docket 4:23-cv-00118) in U.S. District Court for Utah in St. George.

A New Jersey woman is suing Match Group after she found her photo associated with another woman’s name on the company's online Tinder dating site, said a fraud class action (docket 2:23-cv-23115), removed Thursday to U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark from New Jersey Superior Court in Bergen County.

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 seven plaintiffs seeking to challenge Indiana’s HB-1186 statute for unconstitutionally impeding the news media by making it a misdemeanor for journalists to come within 25 feet of police officers on official duty oppose Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) and his two co-defendants' Dec. 1 motion to dismiss their complaint (see 2312040003), according to their memorandum Friday (docket 1:23-cv-01805) in U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana in Indianapolis.