Defendants defrauded Google and others by creating over 60 fake accounts so they could submit thousands of fraudulent copyright infringement notices against their competitors, alleged a complaint Monday (docket 4:23-cv-05824) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

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Charter Communications continues to ignore the “actual text” of the “saving clause” in the 2005 Texas Cable Act and asks the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court to interpret that provision in a manner that makes the saving clause “a nullity,” said Prewitt Management’s reply brief Thursday (docket 23-50419).

Amazon filed nearly identically worded lawsuits in three federal courts Thursday seeking to halt separate sets of alleged fraudsters from running the “impersonation” scams that dupe consumers into buying fake Amazon support services for activating Prime Video on their devices.

Skidmore College discovered a data breach on Feb. 17 and only began notifying affected individuals Sept. 15, alleged plaintiff Mary Cogan in a class action Thusrday (docket 1:23cv1409) in U.S. District for Northern New York in Syracuse.

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) claims in California et al. vs. Meta, brought in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland last month by 33 attorneys general (see 2310250066), are “self-defeating,” said attorney Cathy Gellis on a Chamber of Progress webinar Thursday examining social media addiction lawsuits pending before state and federal courts.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco granted SiriusXM’s motion to compel the fraud claims of class-action plaintiffs Ayana Stevenson, David Ambrose and Lisa Ramirez to arbitration (see 2309050054), said his signed order Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-02367). The judge granted the plaintiffs’ request to dismiss the case without prejudice so that they may immediately appeal.

A defect in Intel central processing units (CPUs) can only be “fixed” by adopting a patch that slows CPU performance by as much as half, said a fraud complaint (docket 4:23-cv-05761) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

An insurance company “downplayed” the nature of Progress Software Corp.’s (PSC) May 29-30 MOVEit software data breach “and the threat it posed to victims" whose personally identifiable information (PII) was “illicitly accessed and stolen,” said a September fraud class action (docket 1:23-cv-09868) removed Wednesday from New York County Supreme Court to the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.