An Alabama city's moratorium preventing Brightspeed from installing the aerial portion of its fiber optic network to make the network operable for high-speed broadband service violates the Communications Act, state law and “basic principles of legal equity,” alleged Brightspeed's complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-00156) in U.S. District Court for Southern Alabama.Read More >>
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Apple’s App Store “gatekeeping” and its “arbitrary decisions” hurt “honest developers,” alleged Turkish app developer 618Media Apple in an antitrust complaint Wednesday (docket 5:24-cv-02952) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.Read More >>
When a district court finds that a lawsuit involves an arbitrable dispute, and a party requests a stay pending arbitration, Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act compels that court to stay the proceeding rather than dismissing it, said the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion Thursday (docket 22-1218) in Smith v. Spizzirri, delivered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.Read More >>
Verizon and Coinbase caused the theft of $452,000 belonging to a Verizon customer following a SIM swap at a Verizon Wireless store in Indianapolis, alleged plaintiff Bryan Volz’s complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-01416) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Baltimore.Read More >>
Printbox, a subcontractor for Amaze Software, is suing the company for failing to make full payment for photo and print services that the plaintiff completed for Amaze customer Sam's West, which owns Sam's Club. The Polish company filed a fraud complaint Wednesday (docket 5:24-cv-051060) in U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville.Read More >>