Defendant Altice seeks to have allegations it ignored copyright infringement committed by thousands of its high-speed internet subscribers (see 2212150019) moved to the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), said its motion to transfer venue Friday (docket 2:22-cv-00471) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Marshall. Plaintiffs BMG and its affiliates oppose the motion, said Altice.
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AT&T “took a blow” Wednesday when U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant for Eastern Texas denied its application for a preliminary injunction to stop T-Mobile’s allegedly false BannedSeniors.com ad and marketing campaign (see 2301190009), emailed a T-Mobile spokesperson Friday. With Mazzant’s ruling, “seniors will now continue to have access to truthful information about 55+ wireless discounts,” he said. “AT&T's approach is unfair and confusing. We'll continue to bring attention to this injustice until AT&T finally does the right thing and offers a wireless plan for seniors in states not named Florida.”
Bright Data seeks a declaratory judgment to prohibit Meta from blocking Bright Data’s access to “purely public information" on Meta websites that Meta "expressly says it does not own,” said the redacted public version of its complaint Wednesday (docket N23C-01-065) in Delaware Superior Court in New Castle County. The court granted Bright Data’s motion for leave to file the complaint under seal to protect confidential and sensitive information, but Bright Data didn’t previously disclose what the lawsuit was about (see 2301180044).
U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert for Eastern New York in Central Islip granted the Dec. 12 motion of defendant Muttontown, New York, for a conference in anticipation of the village’s motion to dismiss AT&T’s cell tower complaint, said her electronic order Friday (docket 2:22-cv-05524). Seybert scheduled that in-person conference for Jan. 31 at 10:30 a.m., her order said.
The FCC retaliated against Blanca Telephone two days after the ILEC filed its petition for cert at the Supreme Court to enforce the 10th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s May 2021 mandate directing the agency to collect an old USF debt only through “nonpunitive administrative offset” means. So said Blanca in a supplement to that petition dated Jan. 16 and posted Wednesday (docket 22-645).
U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant for Eastern Texas in Sherman denied AT&T’s Sept. 6 application for a preliminary injunction to stop T-Mobile’s allegedly false BannedSeniors.com ad and marketing campaign. The memorandum opinion and order the judge signed Wednesday (docket 4:22-cv-00760) came five days after he denied T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss AT&T’s application (see 2301170040).
Contrary to ResortCom’s “posturing,” the defendant in Marriott’s trademark infringement lawsuit to thwart Marriott telemarketing impersonators has been aware of its clients’ unauthorized use of the hotel trademark for years, said Marriott’s opposition Tuesday (docket 1:21-cv-00610) to ResortCom’s motion to dismiss in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia.
U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz for Southern Florida in Miami should follow “the legion of case law” in the 11th Circuit and dismiss all counts in plaintiff Christa Simmons’ class action alleging Procter & Gamble violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act. So asserted P&G in a memorandum of law Tuesday (docket 0:22-cv-61956) in support of its motion to dismiss.
Plaintiff Cynthia Redd’s class action “seeks to expand” the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act “far beyond what its authors could have possibly intended,” said Amazon Web Services Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago in its motion to dismiss (docket 1:22-cv-06779) Redd’s complaint for failure to state a claim.
A “reasonable consumer” understands that when buying something, “they own it unless or until they return it or otherwise dispose of it” but not so with content purchased from Amazon Prime Video. So asserted eight California and New York plaintiffs in their opposition Friday (docket 2:22-cv-00401) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle to Amazon’s motion to dismiss their class action for failure to state a claim.