Verizon's debt collector, CBE Customer Solutions, failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted and its counterclaims should be dismissed, said Verizon Wireless Friday in a memorandum supporting its motion for summary judgment in a breach of contract lawsuit (docket: (1:22-cv-08703) stemming from a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action.
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There’s “no evidence” that any of the discovery information that Xfinity Mobile seeks from defendants SellLocked, Guru Holdings and their owner Jakob Zahara in its complaint to thwart allegedly illegal trafficking in stolen phones “is at risk of being destroyed,” said the defendants’ response to XM’s motion for expedited discovery Friday (docket 2:22-cv-01950) in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in Phoenix.
American Tower International (ATI) “improperly withdrew” from an $800 million Latin American wireless project agreement without justification, alleged Terra Towers in a breach of contract suit filed Dec. 12 in the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami.
In its second December defamation complaint (docket 4:22-cv-558), Avid Telecom alleges conference call service company ZipDX launched a campaign to force Avid customers to terminate their business with the common carrier, said the lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Tucson (see 2212080050).
Altice, through its high-speed internet service, “knowingly contributed to, and earned substantial profits from, copyright infringement committed by thousands of its subscribers,” alleged BMG and affiliates in a complaint (docket 2:22-cv-00471) filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern division of Texas in Marshall.
T-Mobile’s “grossly negligent” and “reckless approach to security for SIM swap fraud” shows it tried “to profit from the problem rather than fix it,” argued plaintiff Seema Nair in a complaint (docket 5:22-cv-08030) alleging violation of the Federal Communications Act (FCA), filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
The Apple AirTag location transmitter is “the weapon of choice of stalkers and abusers,” alleges a class action (docket 5:22-cv-07668) brought against Apple in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose Dec. 5 by Lauren Hughes of Travis County, Texas, and Jane Doe of Brooklyn, New York, who claim to be victims of AirTag stalking.
Match Group and its affiliated dating websites collect, analyze and use unique biometric identifiers associated with people’s faces in photos uploaded to their apps and websites without disclosing or acknowledging the collection or requesting consent, alleged plaintiffs in a complaint (docket 1:22-cv-06924) that Match Group removed Friday to U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago from Cook County Circuit Court.
The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should reverse the district court’s Aug. 2 decision granting Crown Castle summary judgment in its infrastructure legal fight with the city of Pasadena, Texas, said the city's opening brief Thursday (docket 22-20454). The minimum spacing and undergrounding requirements in Pasadena's design manual for Crown Castle's small-cell installations are “facially valid” and consistent with the city’s authority, said the city.
A data breach at healthcare company Wright & Filippis (W&F) resulted in unauthorized access to highly sensitive patient and employee data for at least 877,584 individuals, alleged a class action (docket 2:22-cv-12961) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit.