Rebecca Day

Avid Telecom “operates in a manner that is compliant with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations,” said the company in a statement Tuesday responding to the robocalling lawsuit filed earlier the same day by 48 states and the District of Columbia. The complaint alleges violations of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act, the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

“Suppose that a federal national security agency teamed up with private research institutions" to establish a "mass-surveillance and mass-censorship program," posited Monday's reply memorandum (docket 3:22-cv-01213) from the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri in support of their motion for a preliminary injunction against federal officials and agencies. That's a hypothetical that's "directly analogous to the facts in this case," said the filing in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.

Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation plaintiffs’ submission in support of Meta’s motion to sever claims against it in the Doe v. Hey Favor privacy lawsuit “adds nothing new” and “merely reiterates arguments” Meta previously made or the "hospital action" plaintiffs have made in their effort to relate Doe's claims to the Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation class action in the event severance is granted, said plaintiff Jane Doe’s response brief (docket 3:23-cv-00059) Monday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss a fraud suit involving an alleged SIM swap uses a “kitchen-sink approach to avoid liability,” said plaintiff Eman Bayani, responding Monday (docket 2:23-cv-00271) to T-Mobile’s April 24 motion to dismiss (see 2304260067) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

Plaintiffs in Meta Healthcare Litigation filed a memorandum (docket 3:23-cv-00059) Thursday in support of Meta’s motion to sever claims against it in the Doe v. Hey Favor action, calling “factually incorrect” plaintiff Jane Doe’s assertion that the Hey Favor action doesn't concern a hospital, while the Healthcare action concerns only hospitals.

California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) violates the First Amendment, “impermissibly regulates across state lines” and “is preempted by two federal statutes,” said NetChoice’s Friday reply (docket 5:22-cv-08861) in support of its motion for preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

JMBT Live, owner of the Tilt entertainment platform, “misrepresented” the status of its contracts and negotiations with prospective content partners to investors, said plaintiff Locust Group, a Wyoming-based limited liability firm, in a fraud complaint (docket 1:23-cv-04203) Friday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Easy Healthcare will make “significant changes” to its ovulation tracking app, Premom, to ensure data isn’t shared with third parties, said Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) in a Wednesday news release announcing the healthcare company’s voluntary compliance settlement with the FTC and the AGs of Connecticut and Oregon.

Plaintiff Aaron Williams is seeking an order to compel Verizon to produce the names of subscribers associated with phone numbers that are part of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action against online pharmacy PillPack, said a Thursday motion to compel (docket 3:23-mc-00006) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Trenton.

The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), an international group of Christian communicators, joined a lawsuit (docket 2:23-cv-02705) to block AB 587, a California law that would require social media companies to report content deemed “hate speech” and “disinformation” to the government. “In an environment where much religious viewpoint expression is considered ‘controversial’ speech, NRB is acting to stop the weaponization of new laws against Christian communicators,” said CEO Troy Miller in a Thursday news release. It said NRB members represent “hundreds of millions of listeners, viewers, and readers.”