The U.S. Supreme Court should deny the Oct. 26 motion of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his two co-plaintiffs in Kennedy v. Biden (docket 3:23-cv-00381) to intervene in its review of the social media injunction against officials from the White House and four federal agencies (see 2310270001), said the government’s opposition response Thursday (docket 23-411). SCOTUS has distributed the Kennedy plaintiffs’ intervenor motion for the justices’ Nov. 17 conference (see 2311010038).

The “carelessness" and "negligence" of MGM Resorts International, plus its lack of oversight and proper supervision, caused customers victimized in the company's September data breach "to lose all sense of privacy,” alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-01777) in U.S. District Court for Nevada in Las Vegas.

The App Association, plus TechFreedom and the Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), in separate amicus briefs Wednesday, joined other groups (see 2310310001) in support of Apple’s cert petition (docket 23-344) at the U.S. Supreme Court to set aside the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s affirmation of the U.S. District Court for Northern California's injunction that bars Apple from enforcing its anti-steering rules against all U.S. iOS app developers (see 2310030002).

An August data breach at the University of Michigan led to unauthorized access of personal data of students, applicants, alumni, donors, employees, contractors, research study participants and patients, alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 5:23-cv-12783) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Ann Arbor.

A 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court panel handed choreographer Kyle Hanagami a victory Wednesday, reversing the district court’s dismissal of his Copyright Act complaint in which he alleged Epic Games stole his dance moves for its flagship Fortnite franchise. The panel remanded for further proceedings on Hanagami’s claims of direct and contributory infringement of a choreographic work.

Subscriptions to X Premium, formerly Twitter Blue, sold to California consumers violate the state’s Automatic Renewal Law (ARL), alleged a complaint Tuesday (docket CGC 23-610081) in California Superior Court for San Francisco County.

Biden administration officials, including some in the Department of Health and Human Services, violated the First Amendment by directing companies to censor viewpoints that conflict with the government’s COVID-19 messaging, said a New Civil Liberties Alliance petition Tuesday asking an en banc 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals or the three-judge panel to rehear Changizi, et al. v. HHS, et al.

Western Digital continues to market defective SanDisk Extreme and Extreme Pro portable solid-state drives (SSDs), despite those defects having caused some drives to delete data without warning and leaving them “entirely unreadable,” alleged an Aug. 29 fraud class action in San Jose County Superior Court that Western Digital and SanDisk removed Tuesday (docket 5:23-cv-05603) to U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Both parties in the first amended class action brought by plaintiffs Sheila and Dennis Thompson against home entertainment retailer Vintage Stock alleging Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations are to file supplemental briefing by Nov. 14 addressing whether Article III standing exists in the case, said an order signed Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-00042) by U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis.

A hacker, with the help of a Verizon store assistant manager, gained access to a customer’s financial accounts through a SIM card swap, stealing $300,000 from his cryptocurrency account, alleged a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-09556) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. The breach of contract suit names Verizon and Coinbase as co-defendants.