Verizon, CEO Hans Vestberg and former Chief Financial Officer Matt Ellis failed to disclose the company was responsible for “an extensive network of lead cables that had been previously laid in many areas around the country, causing harm and posing the risk of further harm to the environment,” alleged a Verizon shareholder.
Montana’s statewide TikTok ban, SB-419, “exercises Montana’s consumer-protection power to stop a host of data-privacy and related harms by prohibiting TikTok from operating in Montana,” said Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s (R) memorandum Friday (docket 9:23-cv-00061) in U.S. District Court for Montana in Missoula in opposition to the plaintiffs’ consolidated motion for a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs are a group of TikTok users and influencers (see 2305190035), plus TikTok itself (see 2305230053), all seeking to block Knudsen from enforcing SB-419 starting Jan. 1.
Two class actions filed a short time apart Thursday by different law firms, both in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose, accuse SanDisk and parent company Western Digital of marketing defective solid-state drives, and doing little or nothing to fix the problem.
Defendants WCO Spectrum, its founder Gary Winnick and CEO Carl Katerndahl seek an order staying discovery in the fraud case brought by T-Mobile pending resolution of their forthcoming motion to dismiss, said their memorandum Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-04347) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The case involves educational broadband service wireless spectrum in the 2.5-GHz band that the FCC historically has licensed to schools (see 2306030002).
The plaintiff California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and defendant AT&T agree on a September 2024 bench trial date in their dispute over the fate of lead-clad telecom cables at the bottom of Lake Tahoe, and they estimate a trial would take four to five days, said the alliance’s statement Thursday (docket 2:21-cv-00073) in U.S. District Court for Eastern California in Sacramento in preparation for an Aug. 24 status conference.
Plaintiff Teresa Brown “expressly agreed” to Office Depot’s terms of use and its “conspicuous, broadly written” arbitration provisions, said the retailer’s motion Wednesday (docket 4:23-cv-00287) in U.S. District Court for Northern Oklahoma in Tulsa to compel her claims to arbitration on an individual, non-class, basis.
The issue before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in choreographer Kyle Hanagami’s appeal (docket 22-55890) of a district court’s dismissal order “involves protecting an artist’s creative original work from the advances of technology,” said Hanagami’s attorney, David Hecht of Hecht Partners, in oral argument Wednesday.
“Partial input foreclosure,” such as if Microsoft were to curtail the flow of Activision Blizzard video game titles to competing console platforms if its Activision buy closes, but without cutting off supply completely, “is harmful to competition,” said 18 antitrust law professors in an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 23-15992) supporting the FTC’s appeal to block the transaction (see 2307110031).
Lake County, Montana, just north of Missoula, violated Vertical Bridge’s “federal rights” under the Telecommunications Act when it improperly denied applications to build a cell tower to remedy “an existing, significant, and well-known gap” in wireless coverage near the Finley Point area of Polson, alleged the telecom services provider in a complaint Wednesday (docket 9:23-cv-00091) in U.S. District Court for Montana in Missoula.
The parties in the case in which Legacy Equity Advisors accuses AT&T of violating Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act for blocking the private equity firm from bidding on DirecTV and other divested AT&T assets due to its African American ownership want the U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas to place the case on a trial docket for mid-February 2025, said their joint status report and scheduling proposal Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00979). AT&T’s July 17 motion to dismiss called Legacy’s allegations as “offensive” as they are “baseless” (see 2307180002).