Programmatic advertising firm Direct Digital Holdings and three of its executives made false or misleading statements and failed to disclose material facts about the financial impact of a “'cookie-less’ advertising environment,” alleged a securities fraud class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-01940) in U.S. District Court for Southern Texas in Houston.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s May 16 decision in Smith v. Spizzirri, holding that Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act compels district courts to stay, rather than dismiss, cases pending the outcome of arbitration (see 2405160028), “has no effect on the maintenance” of three plaintiffs' appeal against SiriusXM, said the plaintiffs' position statement in a joint status report Thursday (docket 23-4018) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court.

The FCC’s updated data breach notification rule, adopted Dec. 13, released Dec. 21 and published in the Federal Register Feb. 12, is a “brazen effort to claim regulatory authority” that Congress declined to confer under the Communications Act, but also “specifically rejected” under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), said the consolidated opening brief Wednesday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court of five petitioners that seek to invalidate the rule (see 2402210026).

Stratton AV and Hatchfields falsely advertise themselves as an authorized JVC and Kenwood dealer and offer for sale to consumers JVCKenwood USA (JKUSA) products via the Hatchfields seller account on Amazon, alleged a fraud complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-21967) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

Beyonce, Jay-Z and 13 other defendants infringed the copyrighted works of Tessa Avie, Keva Bourgeois, Henri Braggs and Brian Clark, collectively known at one time as Da Showstoppaz, a complaint alleged Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-01334) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Louisiana in New Orleans.

Consumers' Research defended its position Tuesday to the U.S. Supreme Court that Congress and the FCC violated the nondelegation doctrine through the Universal Service Fund contributions mechanism (see 2405070042).

Petitioners iFixit, Public Resource and Make Community “seek to dramatically rewrite federal law and agency rules by destroying the copyright” to the standards development organizations’ standards, said 17 SDOs in an amicus brief Tuesday (docket 23-1311) in the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit in support of the FCC.

In the 20 years since John Mansour, founder of National Telecommunications of Florida (NTF), put his money under the management of his brothers, their lawyer and their bankers, the plaintiff’s assets “were used to facilitate money laundering and other unauthorized transactions in the billions of dollars,” alleged a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) complaint Friday (docket 4:24-cv-00459) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Sherman.

The parties in the consolidated appeal to affirm or reverse the preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of Montana’s statewide TikTok ban (see 2312010003) want the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court to hold the appeal in abeyance, pending the D.C. Circuit’s decision in the TikTok/ByteDance constitutional challenge of the federal TikTok ban, said the parties’ joint motion Tuesday (docket 24-34).

Weather Group Television discloses consumers’ personally identifiable information (PII) to third parties, alleged a Video Privacy Protection Act class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-11349) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.