Paul Gluckman

Granting the FCC’s motion to transfer the consolidated challenges to the commission’s net neutrality order to the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit would “subvert” Congress’ preference for “dispersed regulatory challenges rather than specialized courts,” CTIA, USTelecom and eight other groups told the 6th Circuit in a joint opposition brief Monday (dockets 24-7000, 24-3449, 24-3450, 24-3497, 24-3507, 24-3508, 24-3510, 24-3511, 24-3517, 24-3519).

OpenAI seeks the consolidation of the separate infringement lawsuits brought by the New York Times (see 2312270044) and eight newspapers (see 2404300034) because the two complaints are "functionally identical," said OpenAI’s memorandum of law Thursday (dockets 1:23-cv-11195 and 1:24-cv-03285) in support of its motion.

Microsoft and co-defendant OpenAI filed separate motions Tuesday to dismiss four of the eight counts in an April 30 complaint alleging that the two companies are “purloining” millions of copyrighted newspaper articles without permission and without payment to “fuel the commercialization” of their generative AI products (see 2404300034). Eight newspapers filed that suit.

Education in 2024 “bears very little resemblance to education in previous decades,” and advances in technology have “transformed the pattern of classwork and homework,” said the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition in a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court amicus brief Tuesday (docket 23-60641). The brief backs the FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040).

The FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040) “is both appropriate and lawful,” the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and eight other educational groups said in a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court amicus brief Monday (docket 23-60641) in support of the commission's ruling.

Verizon would have the 7th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court “create new law, significantly expanding the reach" of the Telecommunications Act to install small cells on privately leased property outside Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum in time for the July 15-18 Republican National Convention, said Milwaukee’s Deer District, an intervenor-defendant in Verizon’s small-cells dispute with the city, in a reply brief Friday (docket 24-1212).

Mississippi, by enacting its House Bill 1126, is the latest state to attempt to “unconstitutionally regulate” minors’ access to online speech, “and impair adults’ access along the way,” said NetChoice’s complaint Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00170) against Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) in U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi.

NetChoice seeks an injunction blocking Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr (R) from enforcing Georgia Act 564, an amendment to the state’s Inform Consumers Act, when it takes effect July 1, said NetChoice’s complaint Thursday in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta.

The FCC has an “affirmative legal obligation” under Sections 552 and 553 of the Administrative Procedure Act “to make its proposed and final rules readily available to the public without charge,” despite the process known as incorporation by reference (IBR), said iFixit, Public Resource and Make Community in their reply brief Tuesday (docket 23-1311) at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Signet Jewelers, which operates Zales stores nationally, beckons customers to sign up for its email promotions to entice them to visit its stores, without disclosing that it embeds those emails with “hidden spy pixel trackers,” alleged plaintiff Claudette Torrez’s class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-01332) in U.S. District Court for Arizona.