U.S. District Judge Steven Logan for Arizona in Phoenix issued nearly identically worded orders Friday in two separate Telephone Consumer Protection Act cases -- Crawford v. National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (docket 2:23-cv-00903) and Howard v. Republican National Committee (docket 2:23-cv-00993) -- in which he granted the defendants' motions in both cases to dismiss with prejudice and without leave for the plaintiffs to amend.
The Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, plus their four individual social media user co-plaintiff-respondents in Missouri v. Biden, oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his two co-plaintiffs' Oct. 26 motion in Kennedy v. Biden to intervene in the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of the social media injunction against the White House and four federal agencies, said their responding brief Monday (docket 23-411).
U.S. District Judge Amanda Brailsford for Idaho in Coeur d'Alene denied the motion of the 250-resident Potlatch Hill Neighborhood Group and five individual neighbors to intervene in defense of Kootenai County’s February denial of AT&T’s application to build a wireless communication tower, said Brailsford’s memorandum decision and order Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-00124).
U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill for Idaho in Coeur d'Alene denied Kochava’s motion for Rule 11 sanctions against the FTC on grounds that the agency's June 5 amended complaint contained consumer privacy allegations that were frivolous, knowingly false or filed for an improper purpose, said his memorandum decision and order Friday (docket 2:22-cv-00377). The judge also granted the FTC’s motion to unseal its complaint, and gave the parties 14 days to object to the disclosure of documents not addressed in his order.
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).
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin for Northern Illinois in Chicago granted SoftBank’s motion to dismiss a complaint for lack of jurisdiction and improper venue for its role in T-Mobile's 2020 Sprint buy. But the judge also denied the joint T-Mobile-SoftBank motion to dismiss the antitrust complaint for failure to state a claim, in his signed memorandum opinion and order Thursday (docket 1:22-cv-03189).
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).
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.
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.
Two more amicus briefs emerged Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Apple’s petition to set aside the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s affirmation of the U.S. District Court for Northern California’s injunction barring Apple from enforcing its anti-steering rules against U.S. iOS app developers. The injunction arose from the App Store antitrust litigation against Epic Games (see 2310030002).