The Democratic attorneys general of 21 states and the District of Columbia share the concerns of the Republican AGs of Texas and Florida about the manner in which social media platforms “have transformed the way people communicate with each other.” The AGs filed an amicus brief Thursday at the U.S. Supreme Court in the challenges of NetChoice and the Computer & Communication Industry Association to defeat the Texas and Florida social media laws on First Amendment grounds.

Altice has knowingly contributed to, and reaped “substantial profits” from, massive copyright infringement committed by thousands of its internet subscribers, alleged 54 record labels and music publishers in a complaint Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-00576) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Marshall. Altice has been fending off similar allegations from BMG and its affiliates in the same courthouse in a case that dates to December 2022.

Amazon sued 27 individuals and unknown "John Does" 1-20 in a fraud case involving REKK, a global organization allegedly responsible for stealing “millions of dollars of products from Amazon’s online stores through systematic refund abuse,” said the complaint Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-01879) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

The FTC's appeal of the district court’s July 11 denial of its motion for a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy (see 2307110031) “is every bit about the right process for merger review as it is about the denial of relief,” FTC attorney Imad Abyad told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in oral argument Wednesday.

Videogame software and hardware companies manufactured, published, marketed and sold gaming products “specifically developed and designed to cause the addiction" experienced by minors and other users, alleged a 19-count complaint Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-16566) against 15 defendants in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

A T-Mobile employee downloaded, without the customer's consent, the private images and videos from a cellphone that customer had traded in, alleged a Nov. 17 negligence complaint (docket 4:23-cv-05166) in Washington Superior Court that removed Wednesday to U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington in Richland.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports T-Mobile’s Nov. 28 motion to certify the court’s Nov. 2 denial of T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss the T-Mobile/Sprint antitrust class action for interlocutory appeal to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (see 2311290042), said the Chamber’s amicus brief Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Plaintiff’s trademark rights are in X Social Media, not X, said X Corp.’s motion to dismiss Monday (docket 6:23-cv-01903) a trademark infringement suit in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Orlando. Marketing company X Social Media alleged the former Twitter caused irreparable harm to it when it began using the "X" mark in July as its brand for the social media platform (see 2310030044).

The Economist Newspaper NA intentionally, systematically and unlawfully discloses customers’ private purchase information in violation of Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act (NISNPIA), alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-00878) in U.S. District Court for Central Utah in Salt Lake City.

A week after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a blog post that Microsoft will take a seat on the OpenAI board as a nonvoting observer, the Authors Guild and the 17 plaintiff authors who brought suit against numerous OpenAI entities and Microsoft filed an amended copyright infringement complaint Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-08292) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. Microsoft is a 49% shareholder in OpenAI.