The Shore Firm is seeking $6 million in attorneys’ fees it's allegedly owed for “successful representation” of VideoShare in a patent infringement lawsuit (6:19-cv-00663) against Google. The plaintiff received a $25.9 million judgment in the suit, rising to more than $31 million including prejudgment interest since the 2021 ruling, its April 30 petition said (docket 3:24-cv-01190) in Texas County Court in Dallas. The case was removed Friday to U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.
Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.
Global Tel-Link charged incarcerated and nonincarcerated persons rates in excess of the contract rates for certain electronic communication services in West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (WVDCR) facilities, alleged a fraud class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-00827) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria.
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s April 29 notice letter about a May 2023 data breach includes three pages devoted to steps victims can take to help protect their personally identifiable information (PII), said a class action (docket 2:24-cv-02106) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Philadelphia. Steps included enrolling in credit monitoring services the defendant is offering victims, it said.
Americans “detest” calls they didn’t ask for, but the Insurance Marketing Coalition’s challenge of the FCC’s Dec. 18 order implementing rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to target and eliminate illegal robotexts (see 2312220059) “is not a case about unsolicited calls,” according to the coalition’s opening brief Wednesday (docket 24-10277) in the 11th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court.
Spotify slashed the reported service provider revenue for its Premium subscription offering to the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) by half on March 1, without advance notice, by “improperly characterizing the service as a different type of Subscription Offering and underpaying royalties,” alleged the MLC's Copyright Act complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-03809) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
Utopia Games agreed to develop MovieZu’s mobile app for iOS and Android operating systems, letting users create and sell “Hollywood-quality” animated movies. However, Utopia hasn’t delivered as promised, a fraud complaint alleged (docket 1:24-cv-03804) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
Verizon and Coinbase caused the theft of $452,000 belonging to a Verizon customer following a SIM swap at a Verizon Wireless store in Indianapolis, alleged plaintiff Bryan Volz’s complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-01416) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Baltimore.
Apple’s App Store “gatekeeping” and its “arbitrary decisions” hurt “honest developers,” alleged Turkish app developer 618Media Apple in an antitrust complaint Wednesday (docket 5:24-cv-02952) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
An Alabama city's moratorium preventing Brightspeed from installing the aerial portion of its fiber optic network to make the network operable for high-speed broadband service violates the Communications Act, state law and “basic principles of legal equity,” alleged Brightspeed's complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-00156) in U.S. District Court for Southern Alabama.