Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman seek reconsideration of U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero’s March 8 order granting summary judgment against them for their roles in the robocall campaign designed to suppress Black citizens' mail-in votes in the run-up to the 2020 election (see 2303090003), said their letter motion Wednesday (docket 1:20-cv-08668) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Two streaming video apps violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by integrating Meta tracking code into their platforms to disclose subscribers’ video viewing history to Meta for advertising and marketing purposes, said separate class actions against MLB.tv and FitOn.

Walla Walla, Washington, seeks summary judgment against AT&T’s claim that the city violated Section 332 of the Telecommunications Act. It's challenging AT&T's contention that a city hearing examiner’s denial of its application to build a 65-foot cell tower wasn’t supported by substantial evidence (see 2312040002), said Walla Walla’s motion Wednesday (docket 4:23-cv-05162) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington in Richland.

OpenAI’s AI products use “stolen" personally identifiable information (PII) from “hundreds of millions of internet users,” including children, without their "informed consent or knowledge," alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 3:24-cv-01190) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

The proposed class in a fraud class action challenging a Ponzi scheme involving bogus overseas licensing rights for HBO and Netflix films is owed $300 million for amounts loaned in 2018 and 2019, alleged AVR Group, Trident Asset Management and Illinois resident Michael Dziurgot in a fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-20755) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

A data breach at Multi-Fineline Electronix (MFlex) in Irvine, California, was a direct result of the printed circuit manufacturer’s failure to implement adequate cybersecurity procedures to protect employees’ and beneficiaries’ personally identifiable information (PII) from a “foreseeable and preventable” cyberattack, alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 8:24-cv-00400) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.

U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford for Western New York in Rochester found in favor of Crown Castle, Extenet and Verizon on their consolidated claim that Rochester violated Sections 253 and 332 of the Telecommunications Act in the unlawful manner in which it assessed fees for telecom deployments within its jurisdiction, said her signed decision and order Tuesday (dockets 6:19-cv-06583, 6:20-cv-06866 and 6:20-cv-07129). A two-day bench trial was convened in early June (see 2212200065).

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California’s social media transparency law, AB-587, violates the First Amendment’s “stringent prohibition on viewpoint discrimination,” said UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh in a Feb. 21 amicus brief (docket 24-271) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court. Volokh’s brief supports X’s appeal to reverse the district court’s denial of its injunction to block California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) from enforcing AB-587 (see 2401190038).

Riveted Games, developer of the online video game CryptoBlades, defrauded investor Tenzor Capital after entering two "simple agreement for future tokens" (SAFT) pacts in August 2021, said Tenzor's complaint Monday (docket 2:24-cv-00955) in U.S. District Court for South Carolina in Charleston.