Rebecca Day

NetChoice hasn't alleged a “cognizable" First Amendment injury to its members that could establish its "associational standing,” said Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) in a memorandum Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00047) in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus opposing NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block him from enforcing the state's Social Media Operators Act.

Inmate Calling Solutions (ICSolutions) charged “junk fees” fraudulently itemized as a “tax” to inmates’ families for calls originating from prisons, alleged a class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-02027) in U.S. District Court for Kansas in Kansas City.

Two plaintiffs’ lawsuit against T-Mobile in a SIM swap fraud case “belongs in arbitration,” said the defendant's memorandum of law Friday (docket 1:23-cv-06159) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn in support of its motion to compel arbitration and stay the case, pending the outcome of that arbitration.

SaurikIT, whose appeal of a district court’s dismissal of an antitrust suit vs. Apple was rejected by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month, filed a petition Thursday (docket 22-16527) for rehearing and rehearing en banc.

Plaintiff Misael Ambriz’s privacy complaint against Google should be dismissed under Rule 12(b)(6), said Google's motion Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-05437) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. Google can’t be held liable under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) “for merely providing a software program -- the modern equivalent of a tape recorder” -- that Verizon uses for customer service calls, said Google's memorandum of points and authorities in support of the motion.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) sued TikTok for deceiving Iowa parents about “children’s widespread access to inappropriate content” on its platform, said her Wednesday news release announcing a fraud complaint against the social media platform in Iowa District Court for Polk County in Des Moines.

Comcast's Xfinity “waited weeks” to patch its systems against the “Citrix Bleed” vulnerability in the cloud service company’s software that led to an Oct. 10 data breach, said a negligence class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00258) against both companies in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Comcast and Citrix have the resources “to take seriously the obligation” to protect customers’ personally identifiable information (PII), but they “failed to invest the time or resources necessary to protect the PII” of Raymond Goodrow and class members who are victims of Citrix’s October data breach, said a class action Wednesday (docket 0:24-cv-60100) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Fort Lauderdale.

Social media companies “are going to keep committing deliberate child safety violations just as long as they can continue raking in billions in profits off kids,” said Tech Oversight Project Executive Director Sacha Haworth in a Thursday news release.

An Apple customer has been denied access to 30 years’ worth of his data because Apple allowed hackers to exploit a known flaw in the company’s data security that allows unauthorized third parties to gain access to victims’ accounts and change the recovery key, alleged a complaint Tuesday (docket 5:24-cv-00272) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.