DirecTV violated the Fair Debt Collection Act when it sent past due notices to a customer who had canceled service on one of his DirecTV accounts, alleged a complaint Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-00354) in U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi in Gulfport.

The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League, in separate amicus briefs Thursday before the U.S. Supreme Court, came to the defense of NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association in their efforts to defeat the Texas and Florida social media laws (dockets 22-277 and 22-555) on grounds that their content-moderation and other restrictions violate the First Amendment.

Six plaintiffs are suing 10 known defendants, plus John Does 1-1,000, for violation of California’s Anti-Spam Law, Business & Professions Code, said their fraud complaint Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-01287) in U.S. District Court for Western Michigan in Grand Rapids.

The FTC's appeal of the district court’s July 11 denial of its motion for a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy (see 2307110031) “is every bit about the right process for merger review as it is about the denial of relief,” FTC attorney Imad Abyad told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in oral argument Wednesday.

Videogame software and hardware companies manufactured, published, marketed and sold gaming products “specifically developed and designed to cause the addiction" experienced by minors and other users, alleged a 19-count complaint Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-16566) against 15 defendants in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

A T-Mobile employee downloaded, without the customer's consent, the private images and videos from a cellphone that customer had traded in, alleged a Nov. 17 negligence complaint (docket 4:23-cv-05166) in Washington Superior Court that removed Wednesday to U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington in Richland.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports T-Mobile’s Nov. 28 motion to certify the court’s Nov. 2 denial of T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss the T-Mobile/Sprint antitrust class action for interlocutory appeal to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (see 2311290042), said the Chamber’s amicus brief Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Plaintiff Tonny Storey’s fraud class action complaint against Amazon for failing to deliver products by a promised date doesn't state a claim for breach of contract, said Amazon’s Rule 12(B)(6) motion to dismiss Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-01529) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and the Daily Wire and Federalist media outlets seek declaratory and injunctive relief to stop the State Department from running “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press” in the history of the U.S., said their complaint Wednesday (docket 6:23-cv-00609) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Tyler. The complaint draws heavily from documents produced in discovery in Missouri v. Biden.

The Economist Newspaper NA intentionally, systematically and unlawfully discloses customers’ private purchase information in violation of Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act (NISNPIA), alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-00878) in U.S. District Court for Central Utah in Salt Lake City.