Nexstar Media published false statements about former WOOD-TV Grand Rapids, Michigan, news director Stanton Tang involving Gay Pride coverage in the city in June 2023, alleged Tang’s defamation complaint (docket 1:24-cv-00616). A Kent County, Michigan, resident, Tang filed July 12 in U.S. District Court for Western Michigan in Grand Rapids.
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Less than a month after U.S. District Judge Denise Casper for Massachusetts in Boston dismissed Norma Egan's privacy lawsuit vs. X-Mode Social over geolocation tracking, the plaintiff returned to the courtroom, this time in U.S. District Court for Virginia. Egan is still claiming unjust enrichment and violation of the Massachusetts Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
A telemarketing fraud suit filed May 23, 2023, by 48 states and the District of Columbia against VoIP service provider Avid Telecom for allegedly facilitating illegal robocall traffic on its network (see 2305230065), “does not contain a scintilla of evidence” that Avid ever initiated "even a single illegal robocall,” said the defendant's answer (docket 4:23-cv-00233) to the complaint Friday in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Tucson. Nor does the complaint have evidence that Avid knew “that any of the calls that it received from an originating aggregator or carrier was an illegal robocall," it said.
MaxLinear falsely assured investors it would complete its $3.8 billion Silicon Motion buy, even after it “had already decided to abandon the deal,” alleged a shareholder complaint Thursday (docket 3:24-cv-01033) against the RF semiconductor maker and two executives in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.
Online education platform company 2U and three executives made materially false and misleading statements and failed to disclose material adverse facts about business operations from February 2022 to February 2024, alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action (docket 8:24-cv-01723) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt.
Donald Friend sued Google in U.S. District Court for Northern California, seeking to halt its “complex and misleading system and practices” involving businesses advertised on Google Maps, said his Thursday complaint (docket 5:24-cv-03571) in the San Jose court.
Two insurance companies must defend and indemnify Comcast for all liability arising from a lawsuit involving alleged property damage a subcontractor caused in February 2019, said Comcast's breach-of-contract complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-22284) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale.
Amazon “abuses its market dominance to shield itself from competition, reduce market activity, and extract supracompetitive fees,” alleged an antitrust class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00851) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
DirecTV is attempting to “misappropriate” the security system supporting its pay-TV services, alleged system developer Synamedia Wednesday in a trade secrets suit (docket 2:24-cv-04967) in U.S. District Court for Central California.
Summit Health combines patients’ searches for medical information with their protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) and sells it to advertisers without their permission, alleged a privacy class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-06972) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. The suit also names Meta, Google, PubMatic, Microsoft and Magnite.