Unknown defendants John Does 1-10 conspired to create cryptocurrency wallets in plaintiff Damien Sabella’s name by transferring funds from his Coinbase account, and he's now unable to access those wallets, said Sabella’s Nov. 22 complaint (docket 2:23-cv-09907) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.

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.

Plaintiff Robert Marrone and nearly 169,000 class members who were victims of a September data breach at Warren General Hospital in Warren, Pennsylvania, are at “significantly increased risk of fraud,” alleged a Nov. 22 class action (docket 1:23-cv-00330) in U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania in Erie.

In a robocall case brought by the attorneys general of 48 states against Avid Telecom and executives Michael Lansky and Stacey Reeves, the plaintiffs’ opposition brief “reflects some confusion about the requirements and application of the primary jurisdiction doctrine,” said the defendants’ reply brief Friday (docket 4:23-cv-00233) in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Tucson in further support of their motion to stay and refer as a matter of primary jurisdiction to the FCC.

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 U.S. District Court for Oregon erred June 13 when it granted YouTube’s motion to dismiss the second amended complaint of plaintiff-appellants Victor Walkingeagle, Nathan Briggs and Donald Molina for violations of Oregon’s Automatic Renewal Law (ARL), said their opening brief Monday (docket 23-35465) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The 9th Circuit should therefore reverse the district court’s dismissal order and remand for further proceedings, it said.

The U.S. Supreme Court should grant the cert petition of criminal defendant Keiron Sneed to review the Illinois Supreme Court's judgement, reversing a lower court's denial of the state's motion to compel Sneed's to produce his cellphone passcode, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in its Nov. 16 amicus brief (docket 23-5827). The order would require Sneed "to honestly recall and enter his memorized cellphone passcode to aid in his own prosecution," EFF said.

The government will have a final opportunity before Jan. 17 oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court to stand by its defense of Chevron deference when it files its responding brief Dec. 15 in Relentless v. Commerce Department (docket 22-1219).

A YouTube video by ComplaintBox attacked Crash Proof Retirement by falsely stating that the plaintiff “exists to exploit seniors,” said a complaint Nov. 17 (docket 2:23-cv-04546) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia brought by Crash Proof and parent company Retirement Media Inc. (RMI).

Malicious actors accessed personal records of 3.9 million current and former Northwell Health patients between March 27 and May 2, but Northwell and its record-keeping vendor, Perry Johnson & Associates, kept the data breach hidden from the public until Nov. 3, alleged plaintiff Crystal Brewster’s class action Monday (docket 1:23-cv-08627) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn. Northwell runs 20 hospitals and more than 800 outpatient facilities in the New York area.