T-Mobile and seven of its subsidiaries seek “redress” for a “nationwide criminal scheme” to defraud T-Mobile and the subsidiaries “out of an amount believed to be more than $10 million,” alleged a complaint Friday (docket 2:23-cv-04347) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles. The case involves educational broadband service (EBS) wireless spectrum in the 2.5-GHz band that the FCC historically has licensed to schools, and T-Mobile leased much of that spectrum from the schools that hold the licenses to build its nationwide cellular and data network.Read More >>
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The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation moved with apparent speed in the days before Friday’s release of its order (MDL No. 3073) transferring the 11 class actions arising from T-Mobile’s latest date breach, plus five cases treated as potential tag-alongs, for pretrial consolidation under U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes for Western Missouri in Kansas City.Read More >>
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation “repeatedly rejected” plaintiffs’ primary basis to vacate conditional transfer order 7 (CTO-7) -- that the transferor court should be allowed to rule on questions of fraudulent misjoinder and remand -- “as an insufficient basis to vacate a conditional transfer order.” So said ByteDance Friday, opposing (docket MDL 3047) in U.S. District Court for Northern California plaintiffs Dean Nasca and Michelle Nasca’s May motion to vacate CTO-7 in Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury.Read More >>
Two more negligence class actions were filed last week against Dish Network in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver over the company’s Feb. 23 network outage and resulting data breach.Read More >>
Communications Litigation Today is tracking the following lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions:Read More >>