Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) is investigating lead-covered cables that may be present in Arizona, a response to recent reports identifying them as a potential environmental and public health risk, her office said Wednesday.

Multiple U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical Wednesday of regulatory agency power when it comes to handling adjudications differently from court proceedings -- specifically the right to trial by jury (docket 22-859). The SEC, in SEC v. Jarkesy, is seeking to overturn a 2022 decision by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting the agency's administrative judgment in a securities fraud case. The appellate court decision was seen having implications for administrative law judge (ALJ) power at regulatory agencies broadly, including the FCC (see 2205260050).

T-Mobile breached its contractual obligations to Irvine, California-based mobile device maker Unimax by failing to accept delivery of nearly half a million devices, alleged Unimax's fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-01830) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

Many states that previously recognized state-law “analogs” to Chevron deference “have abolished those counterparts, either by statute or judicial decisions,” with no detriment, said five former state supreme court justices, a former state appeals court judge and the American Commitment Foundation in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief Monday (docket 22-1219). The brief was in support of the petitioners in Relentless v. Commerce Department that urge SCOTUS to do away with the Chevron doctrine.

Fifteen cryptocurrency users are suing MLB, its players and related entities for their sponsorship relationship with FTX Trading, the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in November 2022 in what SEC Chair Gary Gensler called a “house of cards” built on a “foundation of deception.” FTX "stole more than $8 billion" in class member funds, "the bulk of which has now vanished," said the class action (docket 1:23-cv-24479), filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

Smartbiz Telecom isn't an originating provider and doesn't have the capability to make calls, said the VoIP provider Monday in a reply (docket 1:22-cv-23945) to the response from the office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) to its statement of material facts in the state's Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit (see 2311200027).

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Google is allowing a "fake company" that's likely not U.S.-based to use its platform "to scam people,” alleged a fraud complaint (docket 1:23-cv-10352), removed Monday to U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Milwaukee and its public works commissioner, Jerrel Kruschke, unlawfully denied Verizon’s applications for permits to install small cells on newly constructed poles in the city’s Deer District, alleged Verizon’s complaint Friday (docket 2:23-cv-01581) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Northern District of Georgia's decision blocking the Georgia secretary of state from running statewide elections for the five-member Public Service Commission on grounds that the at-large elections constituted unlawful vote dilution under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).