Social media companies, such as Google, have turned the free exchange of ideas “on its head,” said independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Friday reply brief (docket 3:23-cv-03880) in support of his motion for a preliminary injunction against Google to prevent it from removing his videos from YouTube. Kennedy is suing Google in a free speech suit after YouTube removed anti-vaccine videos of Kennedy’s that violated its medical misinformation policy.
Three online platform plaintiffs aren’t likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the requirements in Section 394-ccc, New York’s hateful conduct law, infringe on their First Amendment rights, and the district court’s preliminary injunction blocking New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) from enforcing the statute should be reversed, said James’ office in an Oct. 10 reply brief (docket 23-356) in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Multiple amicus briefs days earlier urged the 2nd Circuit to affirm the injunction (see 2309260001).
The U.S. District Court for Connecticut in New Haven “correctly held” Aug. 30 that all preliminary injunction factors weigh in Charter Communications’ favor when it instructed defendant Bridger Mahlum to show cause why an emergency preliminary injunction shouldn’t be issued, said Charter’s reply brief Friday (docket 3:23-cv-01106) in support of that injunction.
“Tens of thousands” of FuboTV subscribers in 23 Nexstar markets were under threat to “suddenly lose access to ABC content” Saturday for two months, said a Fubo breach of contract complaint (docket 654978/2023) Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Fubo seeks a permanent injunction enjoining Nexstar and Tribune Media, which it bought in 2019, “from restricting access by Fubo subscribers to ABC content from affiliate stations.”
Eisenhower Medical Center installed Facebook’s Meta Pixel tracking tool and other third-party tracking technology on its web properties in order to send users' private information to third parties such as Facebook or Google, allege plaintiffs B.K. and N.Z. in a Thursday privacy class action (docket 5:23-cv-02092) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Riverside.
USTelecom and its Industry Traceback Group (ITG) subsidiary seek to quash three deposition subpoenas served on them Sept. 28 by Avid Telecom CEO Michael Lansky, said their memorandum Thursday (docket 1:23-mc-00103) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in support of their motion to quash.
“Technology has evolved but the law has not," said defendants Atlas Marketing Partners and Atlas Investment Ventures in a Wednesday reply (docket 3:23-cv-00313) in support of their motion to dismiss and to strike the FTC’s February complaint (see 2302170050) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego. The complaint alleges a network of companies and individuals is responsible for delivering “tens of millions” of unwanted VoIP and ringless voicemail (RVM) phony debt service robocalls.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy for Montana in Missoula inundated Montana Solicitor General Christian Corrigan with tough questions during oral argument Thursday when Corrigan defended against a preliminary injunction to block Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) from enforcing SB-419, the state’s TikTok ban, when the statute takes effect Jan. 1. Five TikTok creators, plus TikTok itself, are seeking the injunction in two consolidated cases (dockets 9:23-cv-00056 and 9:23-cv-00061).
The Republican National Committee’s case against Google is about a market-dominant communications firm “unlawfully discriminating” against the RNC “by relegating its email messages to subscribers’ spam folders because of the RNC’s political affiliation and views,” said the RNC’s first amended complaint Tuesday (docket 2:22-cv-01904) in U.S. District Court for Eastern California in Sacramento. U.S. District Judge Daniel Calabretta, in an Aug. 24 order, granted Google’s motion to dismiss the RNC’s original complaint but also granted the committee partial leave to amend to establish that Google didn’t act in good faith (see 2308250030).
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency “meets interminably” with social media platforms to discuss content-moderation policies and censorship, said the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri, plus five individual social media user plaintiffs, in a respondents’ brief Tuesday (docket 23A243) at the U.S. Supreme Court.