Rebecca Day

Fifteen cryptocurrency users are suing MLB, its players and related entities for their sponsorship relationship with FTX Trading, the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in November 2022 in what SEC Chair Gary Gensler called a “house of cards” built on a “foundation of deception.” FTX "stole more than $8 billion" in class member funds, "the bulk of which has now vanished," said the class action (docket 1:23-cv-24479), filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

Unknown defendants John Does 1-10 conspired to create cryptocurrency wallets in plaintiff Damien Sabella’s name by transferring funds from his Coinbase account, and he's now unable to access those wallets, said Sabella’s Nov. 22 complaint (docket 2:23-cv-09907) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.

Plaintiff Robert Marrone and nearly 169,000 class members who were victims of a September data breach at Warren General Hospital in Warren, Pennsylvania, are at “significantly increased risk of fraud,” alleged a Nov. 22 class action (docket 1:23-cv-00330) in U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania in Erie.

In a robocall case brought by the attorneys general of 48 states against Avid Telecom and executives Michael Lansky and Stacey Reeves, the plaintiffs’ opposition brief “reflects some confusion about the requirements and application of the primary jurisdiction doctrine,” said the defendants’ reply brief Friday (docket 4:23-cv-00233) in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Tucson in further support of their motion to stay and refer as a matter of primary jurisdiction to the FCC.

A YouTube video by ComplaintBox attacked Crash Proof Retirement by falsely stating that the plaintiff “exists to exploit seniors,” said a complaint Nov. 17 (docket 2:23-cv-04546) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia brought by Crash Proof and parent company Retirement Media Inc. (RMI).

Claims of manipulation, misrepresentation and intentional deception permeated X Corp.’s well-publicized Nov. 20 complaint (docket 4:23-cv-01175) against media watchdog Media Matters in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Fort Worth. Media Matters’ “blatant smear campaign” is part of a plan to “drive advertisers from X,” said the former Twitter's complaint against the watchdog group and its senior investigative reporter Eric Hananoki.

Certain beauty products sold on Amazon Marketplace, “facilitated by Amazon,” use plaintiff Johnnetta Clemons’ image “to falsely promote and advertise” products as fulfilled by Amazon, said a trademark infringement lawsuit (docket 6:23-cv-02247) that Amazon removed Monday from the 9th Judicial Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida, to U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Orlando.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) refuses to provide direct internet connections via “peering,” linking its network to network optimization service provider Subspace and similar competitors, said an antitrust complaint (docket 2:23-cv-01772) filed Saturday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

A California state appeals court ruling in Liapes v. Facebook (docket A164880) would make it unlawful to direct online information and advertisements to the people most likely to be interested in them, said NetChoice in an amicus letter Monday to the California Supreme Court, urging it to review the case.

Defendant Smartbiz Telecom hasn’t met its burden to show that it's entitled to judgment as a matter of law, said the office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) in its response Friday (docket 1:22-cv-23945) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami to Smartbiz’s Sept. 28 motion for summary judgment in the state's robocalling case against the VoIP provider (see 2309290007). Making or initiating calls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) doesn't "turn on an entity’s status” under FCC regulations, it said.