Rebecca Day

The defendants in a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Amazon over a scheme to sell counterfeit Amazon Fire TV remotes in its store are in default, and the prerequisites for default judgment have been met, said Amazon’s ex parte motion Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01060) for default judgment and permanent injunction against Li Qiang, Shenzhen Yinxi Electronic Commerce and “John Doe” defendants in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate took to X Monday, pinning a tweet that trumpeted its court victory over Elon Musk's breach-of-contract lawsuit. “A huge win for everyone working to hold social media giants to account,” tweeted CCDH.

Internet Archive's theory that its controlled digital lending (CDL) program is protected by fair use under the Copyright Act would have “devastating consequences” for the music, movie and news media industries if the 2nd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court reversed a lower court's decision, said an amicus brief Friday (docket 23-1260) from the Recording Industry Association of America, National Music Publishers’ Association, Motion Picture Association and the News/Media Alliance.

Seven petitioners moved the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan for an order compelling X, formerly Twitter, to pay arbitral fees in accordance with the rules of JAMS in the absence of governing New York law mandating any other division of fees, said their notice of petition Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-02135) to compel Twitter and X to arbitrate with them in accordance with the terms of Twitter’s dispute resolution agreement (DRA).

AT&T aided hackers in stealing over $300,000 from a customer’s cryptocurrency account by helping them clone his mobile phone “at least three times,” alleged a complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-00802) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver.

Two negligence class actions were filed in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania Wednesday involving the Citrix Systems October data breach that compromised the personally identifiable information (PII) of over 35 million Comcast Xfinity customers. One names Citrix only; the second names Citrix and Comcast.

Fast food chain Wingstop and voice AI technology platform ConverseNow capture biometric identifiers, including unique voiceprints of customers, without informing them in writing or obtaining their written consent, as required by Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-02302) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Illinois in Chicago.

“Consumers shouldn’t have to pay higher prices because companies break the law,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland told a news conference Thursday announcing the bipartisan antitrust suit (docket 2:24-cv-04055) against Apple brought by DOJ and the AGs of 15 states and the District of Columbia. DOJ alleges in USA v. Apple that the tech giant has consolidated its monopoly power “not by making its own products better but by making other products worse.”

Ten Amazon Prime members filed a breach of contract class action (docket 2:24-cv-00364) against Amazon Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle over the $2.99 Prime Video add-on fee it implemented in January.

Greensboro College waited about six months to notify some 52,000 victims of an August data breach, alleged a negligence class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00243) in U.S. District Court for Middle North Carolina in Greensboro.