The U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana in Indianapolis should dismiss the suit challenging the constitutionality of Indiana’s “buffer law” for lack of jurisdiction because the media organizations that brought the action Oct. 6 have alleged no facts sufficient to establish standing or ripeness, said Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) and his two co-defendants in their motion Friday (docket 1:23-cv-01805).

AT&T seeks declaratory and injunctive relief challenging a Washington city's denial of its application for a conditional use permit to build, operate and maintain a wireless telecommunication facility consisting of a 65-foot “faux tree” and accessory equipment on church property on the Walla Walla’s east side, said its complaint Friday (docket 4:23-cv-05162) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington in Richland.

Washington College failed to secure plaintiff Abigail Collins’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a March data breach, alleged a class action (docket 1:23-cv-03258) Friday in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Baltimore.

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.

Matthew Goettsche defrauded investors between April 2014 and December 2019 in a cryptocurrency scheme that purportedly rewarded them for recruiting new investors, alleged a complaint Friday (docket 1:23-cv-03174) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver.

Plaintiff Norma Egan’s claims in a privacy suit must be dismissed, said defendant X-Mode Social Friday in a memorandum of reasons (docket 1:23-cv-11651) in support of its motion to dismiss her July lawsuit (see 2307260030) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.

MGM Resorts International's “impermissibly inadequate data security” caused the personally identifiable information (PII) of plaintiffs and class members to be “exfiltrated by unauthorized cybercriminals” in a Sept. 7 data breach, alleged a Nov. 27 class action (see 2:23-cv-01981) transferred Thursday from U.S. District Court for Southern California to U.S. District Court for Nevada in Las Vegas.

The office of Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) wants U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville to deny NetChoice’s Nov. 28 motion for summary judgment against SB-396, the state’s age-verification Social Media Safety Act (see 2311290005), or at least delay consideration of it until discovery is complete, said its motion Thursday (docket 5:23-cv-05105).

By elevating the private interests of individuals in expanding their audiences over the interests of the public in “workable” social media platforms, Texas and Florida “have violated not only the First Amendment right of the platforms as speakers but also the rights of the public,” said the Media Law Resource Center’s amicus brief Thursday (dockets 22-227 and 22-555) at the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the NetChoice and Computer & Communications Industry Association challenges to the Texas and Florida social media laws (see 2309290020).

Smart home brand Eufy collected, stored and used biometric identifiers and information of delivery drivers without providing them notice, obtaining informed written consent or publishing a data retention schedule, alleged a Nov. 27 privacy class action (docket 5:23-cv-02407) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Riverside. Fantasia Trading owns Eufy, a sister brand to Anker.