AT&T and Verizon customers seeking to vacate T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy “rest” their antitrust claims against T-Mobile on “a boundless theory of causation,” said CTIA’s amicus brief Monday (docket 24-8013) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.Read More >>
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Virginia broadband providers applauded a federal court for tossing a railroad association’s challenge of a 2023 state law that gave ISPs access rights to railroad property. In an opinion Monday, U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia Judge David Novak dismissed a lawsuit by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) against state officials including Virginia State Corporation Commission Judge Jehmal Hudson (case 1:23-cv-00815-DJN-WEF). The court rejected two counts for lack of standing, two for failure to state a claim and two as barred by sovereign immunity.Read More >>
The same law firm, Boies Schiller, that filed a 2020 privacy class action vs. Google in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland over its data collection practices, is filing batches of what Google is calling "copycat" complaints in Santa Clara County Superior Court in California on behalf of thousands of plaintiffs, seeking monetary relief.Read More >>
A 3rd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court panel of Judges Michael Chagares, David Porter and Anthony Scirica affirmed the district court's July 18 decision dismissing Andrew Perrong’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act case against the Democratic Committee of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, for failure to state a claim (see 2308090033), said Chagares’ opinion Wednesday (docket 23-2415).Read More >>
Sheila and Dennis Thompson were correct to ask U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark for Eastern Missouri to remand count II of their first amended Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint against Vintage Stock to St. Louis County Circuit Court where it originated before the home entertainment retailer removed it in January 2023, said Clark’s memorandum and order Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-00042).Read More >>