AT&T violated California statutes by falsely advertising the reliability, coverage and speed of its phone and internet services, while billing for services not provided, alleged a class action (docket 2:23-cv-09979), removed Monday from California Superior Court to U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.

T-Mobile breached its contractual obligations to Irvine, California-based mobile device maker Unimax by failing to accept delivery of nearly half a million devices, alleged Unimax's fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-01830) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

Interlocutory review is designed to address “consequential, unsettled questions of law that can meaningfully change the trajectory of important, resource-intensive cases,” said T-Mobile’s memorandum of law Tuesday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago in support of its motion to certify the court’s Nov. 2 denial of T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss for interlocutory appeal to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Smartbiz Telecom isn't an originating provider and doesn't have the capability to make calls, said the VoIP provider Monday in a reply (docket 1:22-cv-23945) to the response from the office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) to its statement of material facts in the state's Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit (see 2311200027).

Many states that previously recognized state-law “analogs” to Chevron deference “have abolished those counterparts, either by statute or judicial decisions,” with no detriment, said five former state supreme court justices, a former state appeals court judge and the American Commitment Foundation in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief Monday (docket 22-1219). The brief was in support of the petitioners in Relentless v. Commerce Department that urge SCOTUS to do away with the Chevron doctrine.

Google is allowing a "fake company" that's likely not U.S.-based to use its platform "to scam people,” alleged a fraud complaint (docket 1:23-cv-10352), removed Monday to U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Fifteen cryptocurrency users are suing MLB, its players and related entities for their sponsorship relationship with FTX Trading, the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in November 2022 in what SEC Chair Gary Gensler called a “house of cards” built on a “foundation of deception.” FTX "stole more than $8 billion" in class member funds, "the bulk of which has now vanished," said the class action (docket 1:23-cv-24479), filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

Plaintiff Robert Marrone and nearly 169,000 class members who were victims of a September data breach at Warren General Hospital in Warren, Pennsylvania, are at “significantly increased risk of fraud,” alleged a Nov. 22 class action (docket 1:23-cv-00330) in U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania in Erie.

In a robocall case brought by the attorneys general of 48 states against Avid Telecom and executives Michael Lansky and Stacey Reeves, the plaintiffs’ opposition brief “reflects some confusion about the requirements and application of the primary jurisdiction doctrine,” said the defendants’ reply brief Friday (docket 4:23-cv-00233) in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Tucson in further support of their motion to stay and refer as a matter of primary jurisdiction to the FCC.