Five individual residents of Kootenai County, Idaho, plus the 250 residents belonging to the Potlatch Hill Neighborhood Group, can’t rely on the county to protect their interests in AT&T’s fight with the municipality over a disputed cell tower, said the residents’ motion to intervene Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-00124) in U.S. District Court for Idaho. AT&T’s March 29 complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief based on the county’s denial of its application for a conditional use permit to build the 150-foot lattice tower in the northwest corner of the state near the Washington border (see 2303300046).
NetChoice’s complaint Thursday (docket 5:23-cv-05105) asks the U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville to declare the Arkansas Social Media Safety Act unconstitutional for infringing First Amendment rights and to enjoin Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) from enforcing it when it takes effect Sept 1. But Griffin looks forward to “vigorously defending” the statute in court, he emailed Thursday through a spokesperson.
As U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley for Northern California in San Francisco wrapped up a five-day evidentiary hearing Thursday on the FTC’s motion for an injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy, Microsoft answered the commission’s June 12 complaint (see 2306120074) by asserting the agency was wading into unprecedented waters.
Amazon denies claims of negligence and breach of warranty in plaintiff Edna Bowles’ April 26 complaint over allegedly defective Bluetooth earbuds she bought from Amazon (see 2304270062), said Amazon’s answer Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-00317) in U.S. District Court for Middle Louisiana in Baton Rouge. Amazon also denies it bears “any burden of proof as to any” of the allegations, it said.
Factory Mutual Insurance refuses to honor the terms of the property insurance policy the Philadelphia Flyers bought to protect against the type of “catastrophic loss” the team incurred when its games were canceled or curtailed at the Wells Fargo Center in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, alleged team owner Comcast Spectacor in a June 8 state court complaint that Factory Mutual removed Wednesday to U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania (docket 2:23-cv-02476).
Verizon removed to U.S. District Court for Rhode Island in Providence Wednesday a complaint filed June 12 in a state court in Washington County, alleging the carrier “harassed” pro se plaintiff Christopher Laccinole with robocalls for more than four years “for a debt he never owed.”
Plaintiff Antonio Lewis’ opposition to Samsung's motion to compel his fraud claims to arbitration “concedes the relevant facts and law applicable to contract formation,” said Samsung’s reply Tuesday (docket 1:22-cv-10882) in support of the motion. Lewis’ putative class action alleges Samsung duped consumers into believing its Galaxy Z Fold3 foldable smartphone is more durable than it really is (see 2305020029).
Newsmax engages in unsolicited text messaging to promote its goods and services, and continues to text-message consumers even after they opt out of those solicitations, alleged plaintiff April Roughton’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act putative class action Tuesday (docket 9:23-cv-80969) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in West Palm Beach. Roughton seeks injunctive relief to halt the right-leaning media company’s “illegal conduct,” plus statutory damages and “any other available legal or equitable remedies,” said her complaint.
The negligence of healthcare company NationsBenefits enabled hackers associated with the Clop ransomware group to gain access to the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 3 million customers in a data breach the company kept hidden from account holders for two months, alleged plaintiff Robert Lizotte in a class action Monday (docket 0:23-cv-61209) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale.
Defendant Chive Media Group seeks to dismiss plaintiff Gregory Roland’s Video Privacy Protection Act complaint for failure to state a claim, or in the alternative to strike Roland’s class allegations, said its combined motions Monday (docket 1:23-cv-00389) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin.