Telephone Consumer Protection Act plaintiff Thomas Grant seeks limited expedited discovery to preserve relevant records of calls that Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s 2024 presidential campaign made to Grant and his putative class, said the plaintiff’s motion Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00281) in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus.
The arguments in the State Department’s opposition to expedited preliminary injunction discovery in the First Amendment case brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and the right-leaning Daily Wire and Federalist media outlets lack merit, said the plaintiffs’ reply Wednesday (docket 6:23-cv-00609) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Tyler in support of that expedited discovery.
Walla Walla, Washington, seeks summary judgment against AT&T’s claim that the city violated Section 332 of the Telecommunications Act. It's challenging AT&T's contention that a city hearing examiner’s denial of its application to build a 65-foot cell tower wasn’t supported by substantial evidence (see 2312040002), said Walla Walla’s motion Wednesday (docket 4:23-cv-05162) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington in Richland.
Crown Castle co-founder Ted Miller brought suit Tuesday in Delaware Chancery Court to invalidate the “cooperation agreement” the Crown Castle board entered into with Elliott Investment Management, an “activist” Crown Castle investor.
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman seek reconsideration of U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero’s March 8 order granting summary judgment against them for their roles in the robocall campaign designed to suppress Black citizens' mail-in votes in the run-up to the 2020 election (see 2303090003), said their letter motion Wednesday (docket 1:20-cv-08668) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford for Western New York in Rochester found in favor of Crown Castle, Extenet and Verizon on their consolidated claim that Rochester violated Sections 253 and 332 of the Telecommunications Act in the unlawful manner in which it assessed fees for telecom deployments within its jurisdiction, said her signed decision and order Tuesday (dockets 6:19-cv-06583, 6:20-cv-06866 and 6:20-cv-07129). A two-day bench trial was convened in early June (see 2212200065).
California’s social media transparency law, AB-587, violates the First Amendment’s “stringent prohibition on viewpoint discrimination,” said UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh in a Feb. 21 amicus brief (docket 24-271) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court. Volokh’s brief supports X’s appeal to reverse the district court’s denial of its injunction to block California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) from enforcing AB-587 (see 2401190038).
Keyvan Samini, president-chief financial officer of Mobix Labs, a U.S. Navy contractor, seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction for the second time this month to enjoin Apple from restoring external access to his iCloud email account that was hacked Jan. 30 by John Doe bad actors from Uzbekistan, said Samini’s ex parte application Monday (docket 8:24-cv-00249) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was supposed to deter unauthorized uses of copyrighted movies and music, but 25 years after its enactment, the statute’s Section 1201's reach is “virtually limitless,” said the reply brief Friday (docket 23-5159) in the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit of three plaintiff-appellants challenging the government on Section 1201's anti-trafficking and anti-circumvention provisions (see 2311300055).
The FCC faces three petitions for review, all filed Friday, in separate circuits, challenging the lawfulness of the commission’s Dec. 26 quadrennial review order for allegedly violating Section 202(h) of the Telecommunications Act. Nexstar Media Group filed its petition (docket 24-60088) in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Beasley Media Group and Tri-State Communications filed their joint petition (docket 24-10535) in the 11th Circuit, and Zimmer Radio of Mid-Missouri filed its petition (docket 24-1380) in the 8th Circuit.