Religious speech shouldn’t be “lumped together” with speech claims at issue in the NetChoice and Computer & Communications Industry Association challenges to the Florida and Texas social media laws, said an amicus brief Tuesday (dockets 22-277 and 22-555) at the U.S. Supreme Court from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in support of no party.
In December 2020, when SolarWinds learned it was the victim of the Russian government’s “extraordinarily sophisticated” Sunburst attack, the company “promptly and transparently” informed investors, said SolarWinds’ portion of a joint case management letter that it and the SEC sent Monday (docket 1:23-cv-09518) to U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer for Southern New York in Manhattan.
The pair of challenges brought by NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association to the Florida and Texas social media laws presents an opportunity to bolster the U.S. Supreme Court’s “longstanding jurisprudence on state action and editorial discretion” by affirming that the First Amendment applies to internet speech “without disfavor,” said the International Center for Law & Economics in an amicus brief Monday (dockets 22-277 and 22-555) in support of NetChoice and CCIA.
Amazon is the world’s largest online marketplace, “but it has achieved that distinction, and maintains it, through anticompetitive conduct that destroys its competitors and raises prices for consumers everywhere,” alleged online retailer Zulily in an antitrust complaint Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01900) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin for Northern Illinois in Chicago should certify for interlocutory appeal his Nov. 2 order denying T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss the complaint brought by seven AT&T and Verizon customers who seek to vacate T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy on antitrust grounds (see 2311290042), CTIA said in an amicus brief Monday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in support of T-Mobile’s motion to certify.
Epic Games brought its lawsuit challenging the practices and agreements under which Apple maintains a 30% commission on purchases of digital content within iPhone apps, said Epic’s opposition brief Friday (docket 23-344) at the U.S. Supreme Court to Apple’s Sept. 28 cert petition. Apple is trying to defeat an injunction barring it from enforcing its anti-steering rules on U.S. iOS developers (see 2310030002).
Discord’s real-time messaging services are very different from “legacy” social media platforms like Facebook and X that the Florida and Texas legislatures likely had in mind when enacting their content moderation laws, said Discord's amicus brief Friday (dockets 22-277 and 22-555) at the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the NetChoice and Computer & Communications Industry Association efforts to defeat the laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court, with Justice Samuel Alito dissenting, denied Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s motion to intervene in Murthy et al v. Missouri et al (docket 23-511), the SCOTUS review of the injunction that bars officials from the White House and four federal agencies from coercing or significantly encouraging social media to moderate content. The injunction is stayed, pending the court’s resolution of its review.
Altice has knowingly contributed to, and reaped “substantial profits” from, massive copyright infringement committed by thousands of its internet subscribers, alleged 54 record labels and music publishers in a complaint Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-00576) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Marshall. Altice has been fending off similar allegations from BMG and its affiliates in the same courthouse in a case that dates to December 2022.
The Democratic attorneys general of 21 states and the District of Columbia share the concerns of the Republican AGs of Texas and Florida about the manner in which social media platforms “have transformed the way people communicate with each other.” The AGs filed an amicus brief Thursday at the U.S. Supreme Court in the challenges of NetChoice and the Computer & Communication Industry Association to defeat the Texas and Florida social media laws on First Amendment grounds.