Claims of manipulation, misrepresentation and intentional deception permeated X Corp.’s well-publicized Nov. 20 complaint (docket 4:23-cv-01175) against media watchdog Media Matters in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Fort Worth. Media Matters’ “blatant smear campaign” is part of a plan to “drive advertisers from X,” said the former Twitter's complaint against the watchdog group and its senior investigative reporter Eric Hananoki.

Malicious actors accessed personal records of 3.9 million current and former Northwell Health patients between March 27 and May 2, but Northwell and its record-keeping vendor, Perry Johnson & Associates, kept the data breach hidden from the public until Nov. 3, alleged plaintiff Crystal Brewster’s class action Monday (docket 1:23-cv-08627) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn. Northwell runs 20 hospitals and more than 800 outpatient facilities in the New York area.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) refuses to provide direct internet connections via “peering,” linking its network to network optimization service provider Subspace and similar competitors, said an antitrust complaint (docket 2:23-cv-01772) filed Saturday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

A California state appeals court ruling in Liapes v. Facebook (docket A164880) would make it unlawful to direct online information and advertisements to the people most likely to be interested in them, said NetChoice in an amicus letter Monday to the California Supreme Court, urging it to review the case.

The Constitution vests all judicial power in the Article III courts, yet the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1984 Chevron decision holds that courts “must abdicate their independent judgment” and defer to federal agencies’ “interpretation of ambiguous statutes.” So said Relentless, Huntress and Seafreeze Fleet, the second set of petitioners urging SCOTUS to undo Chevron, in their opening brief Monday (docket 22-1219).

Timothy Aguilar’s Oct. 13 complaint alleging that Network Insurance Senior Health Division (NISHD) hounded him with Medicare robocalls when he wasn’t even close to applying for benefits (see 2310200031) “fails to allege facts sufficient to state a cause of action,” said NISHD’s answer Monday (docket 4:23-cv-03988) in U.S. District Court for Southern Texas in Houston.

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Despite the “window dressing,” the X platform’s July 31 complaint against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its U.K. counterpart for allegedly running a "scare campaign" to drive away X advertisers (see 2308010034) is “fundamentally a case about speech,” said CCDH’s motion to dismiss Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-03836) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

U.S. District Judge Kay Behm for Eastern Michigan in Flint granted plaintiff Michael Dahdah’s motion for reconsideration, reopening his Telephone Consumer Protection Act case against Rocket Mortgage and vacating her Sept. 12 order granting Rocket’s motion to dismiss, said her signed order Friday (docket 4:22-cv-11863). The judge also denied Rocket’s motion to compel Dahdah’s TCPA claims to arbitration, and granted Dahdah leave to file a motion to amend his complaint, according to her order.

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