The investigation of the potential impact of AT&T’s lead cables and the cost of "remediation" is ongoing, and the full impact that AT&T’s wrongdoing will have on the company “is yet unknown,” alleged AT&T shareholder Leon Peng in his complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-00132) in U.S. District Court for Delaware in Wilmington.
Meta’s claim that the removal protections of FTC commissioners are unconstitutional is “foreclosed” by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S., according to the FTC’s response Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-03562) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to Meta’s Jan. 25 sur-reply in opposition to the commission’s motion to dismiss.
The Russian government’s Sunburst cyberattack on SolarWinds in 2020 was “of previously unseen scope and sophistication.” Yet three years later, the SEC now accuses SolarWinds -- the victim of that nation-state attack -- of securities fraud, said BSA | The Software Alliance in an amicus brief Friday (docket 1:23-cv-09518) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. The brief is in support of SolarWinds’ Jan. 26 motion to dismiss the SEC’s complaint against the company and Tim Brown, its chief information security officer (see 2401290033).
The U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington in Richland should deny 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 AT&T’s opposition Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-05162).
The “plain, unambiguous” terms of Core Communications’ tariffs obligate AT&T to pay for all 8YY “rate elements” and for all 8YY services that Core has provided “for the ultimate benefit of AT&T’s toll-free customers,” said Core’s opening brief Tuesday (docket 23-3022) in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court to reverse the district court’s finding of summary judgment in AT&T’s favor.
The FCC’s Nov. 20 order, published Jan. 22 in the Federal Register, purports to implement congressional “instruction” to facilitate equal broadband access under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, but it gives the commission “unprecedented authority to regulate the broadband internet economy,” said the Ohio Telecom Association’s (OTA) petition for review Tuesday (docket 24-3072) in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The counsel for a former Amazon third-party seller urged the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan to deny Amazon’s Jan. 11 motion for Rule 11 monetary sanctions against her for submitting legal arguments she knew to be frivolous (see 2401120032), said her opposition Friday (docket 1:23-cv-03334).
The recording industry in recent years has sought to “install” ISPs as the internet’s “copyright police,” said Altice USA’s motion Monday (docket 2:23-cv-00576) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Marshall to dismiss the copyright infringement complaint brought Dec. 7 by 54 record labels and music publishers (see 2312080050). The complaint alleges that Altice has knowingly contributed to, and reaped “substantial profits” from, massive copyright infringement committed by thousands of its internet subscribers.
Comcast is asking the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan to dismiss MaxLinear’s misappropriation of trade secrets counterclaims in their entirety under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim, said Comcast’s memorandum of law Friday (docket 1:23-cv-04436) in support of its motion to dismiss.
U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee entered judgment for Verizon and against Milwaukee, ordering the city to issue Verizon its requested permits within seven days so it can begin ordering small cells and custom-designed poles for installation in time for July’s Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, said the judge’s signed decision and order Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01581).