Milwaukee agrees with Verizon that the crowds expected in the Deer District for the 2024 Republican National Convention in July “will cause significant wireless service gaps and serious public safety risks,” said Verizon’s reply brief Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01581) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The brief is in support of Verizon's motion for a preliminary injunction to force the city’s approval of permits for the installation of poles and small cells outside the Fiserv Forum (see 2312050022).
NetChoice hailed Tuesday’s decision in Columbus, Ohio, granting its motion for a temporary restraining order to block Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) from enforcing the state’s Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act when it takes effect Jan. 15 (see 2401050055).
Nine former Twitter employees filed a motion Friday to compel and for preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland on behalf of the “thousands” of former employees with whom Twitter and X “have refused to proceed with arbitration,” said their memorandum of points and authorities (docket 4:23-cv-03301) in support of their motion.
Even in “hard cases,” courts must exercise independent judgment and determine the “original public meaning” of federal statutes “based on their best understanding of statutory text, structure, history, purpose, and precedent,” but Chevron “flouts these principles,” said the petitioners’ U.S. Supreme Court reply brief Friday (docket 22-1219) in Relentless v. Commerce Department in support of overruling Chevron.
Amazon removed to U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles Friday a class action filed Nov. 23 in Los Angeles County Superior Court in which five plaintiffs allege that the conditions of use that Amazon imposes on consumers to use or shop its platfoms prohibit them from mentioning Amazon or any of its brand names in any manner that “disparages or discredits” the company.
The same attorney who previously helped bring shareholder derivative class actions against top AT&T and Verizon executives and board members for allegedly covering up their knowledge of abandoned toxic lead-laden telecom cables (see 2308020046) filed another suit Thursday (docket 3:24-cv-00063) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Trenton on behalf of Verizon shareholder Wade Sarver.
U.S. District Judge Jessica Clarke for Southern New York denied the petition of former Amazon third-party seller Jiakeshu Technology to vacate an arbitration award in Amazon’s favor and granted Amazon’s cross-motion to confirm that award, said Clarke’s signed opinion and order Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-10119). In light of Clarke's ruling, a clerk's judgment Wednesday decreed that the case is closed.
Bradford Clements, who first sued T-Mobile in November 2022 for damages and injunctive relief from being victimized in eight data breaches in the three years he was a T-Mobile customer (see 2306060047), seeks monetary sanctions against T-Mobile for its failure to comply with the court’s Aug. 2 discovery order. The pro se plaintiff filed a memorandum of points and authorities Wednesday (docket 5:22-cv-07512) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose in support of his motion for sanctions.
The secretaries of state of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s Oct. 3 decision and vacate the injunction that bars officials from the White House and four federal agencies from conversing with social media companies about their content moderation policies (see 2310040001). All Democrats, the chief election officers in their states filed the Dec. 26 amicus brief in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411).
Thursday’s denial of a preliminary injunction that X, formerly Twitter, requested to block California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) from enforcing the state’s social media transparency law (AB-587) cleared Bonta to collect “terms of service” reports from social media companies. They are the first reports under the statute and came due when the law took effect Monday. Hereafter reports will be due each April 1 and Oct. 1, requiring platforms to describe how they're enforcing content moderation policies.