A June 2020 wireless infrastructure declaratory ruling merely clarified existing rules, the FCC told a federal appeals court Wednesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month resumed a long-paused case on a League of California Cities challenge to the FCC decision clarifying shot clock and substantial change rules (see 2302070041). The FCC said in a brief it made no procedural errors and reasonably interpreted its rules (case 20-71765).Read More >>

The federal Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) doesn’t preempt states from taxing digital advertising, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) argued Wednesday at the state’s highest court.Read More >>

T-Mobile removed to U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago what’s believed to be the 13th class action nationally arising from the company’s Jan. 19 disclosure that bad actors accessed the accounts of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customers (see 2301230046). T-Mobile’s notice of removal Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-01263) of the complaint filed Jan. 24 in Cook County Circuit Court broke its nearly six weeks of silence since the first of the class actions was filed against the carrier Jan. 21.Read More >>

Defendant Vintage Stock doesn’t deny any of the allegations of plaintiffs Sheila and Dennis Thompson that the home entertainment retailer sent them dozens of text message solicitations to numbers listed on the national and Missouri do not call registries, said the Thompsons’ memorandum Wednesday (docket 4:23-cv-00042) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis in opposition to Vintage Stock’s Feb. 8 motion to dismiss their Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims for lack of standing (see 2302090045).Read More >>

Vox’s lawsuit alleging Gage Technologies conspired with two of its former employees to steal trade secrets should be dismissed because the plaintiff failed to adequately plead trade secret misappropriation or to identify trade secrets with “sufficient particularity,” said defendants' Tuesday motion (docket 3:22-cv-09135) to dismiss in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.Read More >>

California’s age-appropriate social media design law should be thrown out because it’s preempted by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) (see 2212140063 and 2301310034), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the U.S. District Court for Northern California in an…Read More >>