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.

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.

Google, like almost every email service provider, “uses sophisticated filtering technology to protect users of its free Gmail service from unwanted and dangerous spam emails,” said Google’s memorandum of points and authorities Thursday (docket 2:22-cv-01904) in U.S. District Court for Eastern California in Sacramento in support of its motion to dismiss the Republican National Committee’s Oct. 10 first amended complaint (see 2310120002).

Amazon’s May 30 antitrust cross-complaint against California “is vague and conclusory,” and the state can’t “fully anticipate all defenses that may be applicable to this action,” the state said in its answer Wednesday (docket CGC-22-601826) in San Francisco County Superior Court. California expressly reserves the right to assert any defenses “identified through information learned in the course of this litigation,” because discovery is “ongoing,” it added.

Twenty-one plaintiffs seek to hold cryptocurrency exchange platform Atomic Wallet responsible for the June 3 hack that resulted in the loss of more than $100 million in global crypto assets (see 2306220003). But they previously agreed to Atomic's terms of service that “expressly disclaim liability” for losses due to theft, said Atomic’s motion Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-01582) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver to dismiss the plaintiffs’ Aug. 16 first amended complaint.

Plaintiffs seek to resurrect five claims in their consolidated complaint against Meta in In Re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation, but they “have failed to remedy the defects” the court identified in its September order (see 2309080055), said the Facebook parent’s motion to dismiss (docket 3:22-cv-03580) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

A consolidated class action complaint (docket 1:23-cv-01168), filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver over Dish Network’s February data breach, added violations of Virginia and Wisconsin state laws to negligence, breach of contract, unjust enrichment and violations of the FTC Act and North Carolina Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

Speakers from different advocacy groups clashed during an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation webinar Wednesday over what controls the courts and lawmakers should place on social media companies amid what the multitude of pending lawsuits claim is a youth mental health crisis fueled by internet addiction.

A day after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for Northern California denied social media defendants’ motion to dismiss a negligence lawsuit against them for their alleged role in fueling a youth mental health crisis in the U.S., Facebook and Instagram parent Meta blogged in favor of federal legislation “to create simple, efficient ways for parents to oversee their teens’ online experiences.”

Credit information company One Technologies removed to U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Tacoma a complaint filed Oct. 17 in Clark County Superior Court in which Nathan Brinton alleges the firm sent him at least 175 spam emails since August, in violation of Washington consumer protection laws.