Rebecca Day

Sage Telecom’s allegations that Halsted Financial Service violated the Texas Business & Commercial Code are speculative and insufficient to state a claim, said the defendant’s Wednesday motion to dismiss (see 2303020063) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas (docket 3:23-cv-00463).

An ordinance amending the Los Angeles County Code, allowing for “the fast-tracked proliferation of wireless infrastructure,” violates the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the state constitution, alleged a complaint Tuesday (docket 23STCP00750) in Los Angeles County Superior Court, filed by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and other nonprofits.

TikTok surreptitiously intercepts the private communications of its users, alleged a Wednesday privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-01430) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Altice ignored BMG’s numerous allegations of material contribution to copyright infringement by its customers in its motion to dismiss, and its reference to the importance of internet service during the COVID-19 pandemic has no bearing on its effort to dismiss BMG’s claim for vicarious liability, said plaintiffs’ response (docket 2:22-cv-00471) in opposition to the motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Marshall.

Gannett cited a subscriber’s previous business relationship with its newspapers and her claim for monetary damages in a Friday motion (docket 2:22-cv-01464) to strike class allegations in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case.

A defendant can't avoid liability "for a prominent deceptive representation on the front of a package with fine print on the back,” said plaintiff Dennis Gromov in a Friday memorandum in opposition to defendant Belkin’s motion to dismiss a false advertising case (docket 1:22-cv-6918) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Carnival Corp. engaged in wiretapping when it allowed third-party vendors such as Microsoft to embed JavaScript session replay code on its website to record visitors’ electronic communications, alleged a class action Thursday (3:23-cv-404) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.

Password management company LastPass hasn’t seen any "threat actor activity,” since Oct. 26, the company said in a Wednesday email directing customers to a blog post updating them on steps it took since the data breach it disclosed Dec. 22. In the post, CEO Karim Toubba referenced an “exhaustive investigation” and encouraged users to review the security bulletin and make any necessary changes to their accounts.

Social media companies are “ruthlessly extracting every dollar possible with callous disregard for the harm to mental health,” said a Friday class action (docket 2:23-cv-1233) filed by Irvington Public Schools in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. It’s one of several similar cases linking social media platforms from Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, Snap, TikTok and Google with rising rates of mental health issues among kids (see 2302170051).

Ericsson agreed to plead guilty and pay a criminal penalty of more than $206 million after breaching cooperation and disclosure provisions of a 2019 deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), said DOJ Thursday. Ericsson also will plead guilty to engaging in a “long-running scheme to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by paying bribes, falsifying books and records, and failing to implement reasonable internal accounting controls in multiple countries around the world,” DOJ said.