Indiana’s statewide “buffer law” (HB-1186), making it a misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of police officers on active duty, gives the police “unlimited and unbridled discretion to move all persons away,” said Donald Nicodemus’ opening brief Monday (docket 24-1099) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Montana’s statewide TikTok ban is an “ordinary exercise” of the states’ police power to protect their citizens from deceptive and harmful business practices, said Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) and the Republican AGs of 18 other states in an amicus brief Saturday (docket 24-34) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The brief supports the appeal of Montana AG Austin Knudsen (R) to reverse the district court’s Nov. 20 injunction that blocks him from enforcing SB-419 (see 2312010003).
If ever there were a petition for rehearing en banc that should be granted, it's Cox Communications’ petition in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said Frontier Communications’ amicus brief Monday (docket 21-1168) in support.
Dylan Das seeks to recover damages on behalf of himself and other iRobot shareholder class members attributable to the 74% plunge in iRobot’s stock value during the 17-month period in which Amazon and iRobot were working unsuccessfully to win global regulators' approval of Amazon’s $1.7 billion iRobot buy. Das filed his securities fraud class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-02138) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark.
Crown Castle co-founder Ted Miller’s complaint to invalidate the “cooperation agreement” the Crown Castle board entered into with “activist” investor Elliott Investment Management (see 2402290063) “is without merit,” said the answer Thursday (docket 2024-0176) from 12 defendants, including Crown Castle Chair Robert Bartolo, to the Feb. 27 lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court.
T-Mobile’s response is due Friday to a Roswell, Georgia, motion to appoint Ben Levitan as its substitute RF engineering expert in its long-standing cell tower fight with the carrier, said an order signed Friday (docket 1:10-cv-01464) by U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg for Northern Georgia in Atlanta. The lawsuit turns 14 years old on May 13.
The Night Flight Plus streaming service, which permits viewers to watch throwback TV shows, music videos and movies from the 1980s, has installed tracking pixels on its website that “secretly and surreptitiously send consumers’ viewing activities” to Meta without their consent, alleged plaintiff Jerry Seguin’s Video Privacy Protection Act class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-01354) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian for Eastern Washington in Richland granted Barbara and Everett Knudson's motion to intervene on the side of Walla Walla, Washington, in the city's cell tower dispute with AT&T (see 2401170024), said his signed order Thursday (docket 4:23-cv-05162). The city backed the Knudsons' motion, but AT&T opposed it (see 2402010001).
U.S. Magistrate Judge Brendan Day for New Jersey in Trenton granted seven Belmar, New Jersey, residents' motion to permissively intervene as defendants in Verizon’s small-cells fight with Monmouth County, said his signed memorandum order Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-18091). The county took no position on the motion to intervene, but Verizon opposed it (see 2310240030).
Cox Communications’ petition for rehearing en banc of a 4th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court panel’s affirmation of a jury’s finding of willful contributory copyright infringement (see 2403060028) “presents a question of exceeding importance to anyone who cares about access to the internet,” said the petition Tuesday (docket 21-1168).