Vox Network Solutions’ April 21 opposition to Gage Technologies’ motion to dismiss Vox’s misappropriation of trade secrets complaint (see 2304240010) “makes clear that nothing actionable happened” while individual defendants Kristopher McGreevey and Kevin Frazier worked for Vox, said Gage’s reply brief Tuesday (docket 3:22-cv-09135) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. Vox alleges McGreevey, its then regional sales director, and Frazier, then senior account executive, conspired with Gage to “raid and exploit” confidential Vox information and resources in order to “poach” Vox clients and employees.
The New York Supreme Court “appears to have jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitration award, even when the parties are from different states,” said a memorandum of law filed Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-03054) by Amazon third-party seller Cowin Technology in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in support of its motion to remand the petition to state court (see 2304260027). Cowin seeks to recover $1.09 million in sales proceeds that Amazon seized -- and an arbitrator let Amazon keep -- when it accused the seller of violating its business solutions agreement (BSA) by manipulating product reviews.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs for Massachusetts in Boston signed an order Tuesday (docket 1:22-cv-11551) granting the joint motion of plaintiff Vertex Towers and the defendant town of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, for the entry of an agreement for judgment now that the parties agreed to settle the case.
TikTok and ByteDance removed to U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in El Dorado Tuesday a complaint filed March 28 in Union County Circuit Court in which Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) alleges Tik Tok and its parent company are duping Arkansas consumers about the risks that the Chinese government may gain access to their personal data.
Warner Bros. Discovery and CEO David Zaslav “accomplished” the April 2022 WarnerMedia buy from AT&T with offering documents “that misrepresented key components of WarnerMedia’s business,” said the plaintiffs’ opposition Friday (docket 1:22-cv-08171) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York to WBD’s April 7 motion to dismiss their consolidated amended securities fraud complaint (see 2304100035). WBD’s motion to dismiss called the lawsuit “a classic case of pleading by hindsight.”
Walmart’s April 12 motion seeking 7th Circuit interlocutory review to challenge the constitutional validity of the FTC’s litigation powers (see 2304130002) is an “unwarranted” delay tactic, said the FTC’s opposition brief Monday (docket 1:22-cv-03372) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.
Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg for the District of Columbia granted in part and denied in part defendant Synchrony Bank’s motion to dismiss pro se plaintiff Na’eem Betz’s second amended Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint, said Boasberg’s signed order Monday (docket 1:22-cv-02235).
The “secret company documents” that Elon Musk began releasing six weeks after buying Twitter in October “confirm everything” that former President Donald Trump and his co-plaintiffs alleged about the social media platform’s censorship conspiracy but that the district court deemed not plausible, Trump and his co-plaintiffs said in a reply brief Friday (docket 22-15961). It was filed in their 9th Circuit appeal of the District Court for the Northern District of California’s dismissal of their First Amendment complaint against Twitter and its former CEO Jack Dorsey.
Lumen and AT&T reached an agreement to resolve all claims asserted by the parties in their case, said their joint notice of settlement Friday (docket 1:22-cv-02206) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. Their motion asks the court to vacate their June 20 scheduling conference and to stay all discovery deadlines.
YouTube’s users can watch and listen to music videos for free on its ad-supported service, but those users don’t get access to the digital files “that contain the record companies’ valuable copyrighted works,” said the Recording Industry Association of America. RIAA filed its answering brief Thursday (docket 22-2760) in Yout’s 2nd Circuit appeal of the district court’s dismissal of its action for a declaratory judgment that its software platform wasn't a circumvention tool under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (see 2302030005|).