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Paul Gluckman

Paul Gluckman, Executive Senior Editor, is a 30-year Warren Communications News veteran having joined the company in May 1989 to launch its Audio Week publication. In his long career, Paul has chronicled the rise and fall of physical entertainment media like the CD, DVD and Blu-ray and the advent of ATSC 3.0 broadcast technology from its rudimentary standardization roots to its anticipated 2020 commercial launch.

John Lattimore seeks to hold Dell accountable for the injuries it inflicted on him and millions of similarly situated persons due to its “impermissibly inadequate data security,” alleged his class action Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00499) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin.

U.S. District Judge Michael Watson for Southern Ohio in Columbus reserved ruling in part and denied in part Vivek Ramaswamy’s March 21 and April 1 motions to dismiss Thomas Grant’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint, said the judge’s signed opinion and order Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00281).

Verizon and TracFone Wireless seek the dismissal of Team Marketing Group’s one-count complaint for breach of contract, as the plaintiff fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), said their joint motion Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-20600) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

T-Mobile moved Wednesday to compel arbitration in an 18-case multidistrict data breach litigation because all the more than three dozen plaintiffs in those actions agreed “on numerous occasions” to arbitrate any claims they may have against T-Mobile, said its motion (docket 4:23-md-03073) in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri in Kansas City. The plaintiffs can’t avoid “their contractual obligations,” it said.

Lingo Telecom, as a simple phone company, doesn’t belong as a defendant in the lawsuit that alleges political consultant Steve Kramer hired robocall broadcaster Life Corp. to send thousands of robocalls two days before the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary to people they thought were likely Democratic voters, said Lingo’s motion Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00073) in U.S. District Court for New Hampshire in Concord to dismiss the March 14 complaint.