The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports T-Mobile’s Nov. 28 motion to certify the court’s Nov. 2 denial of T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss the T-Mobile/Sprint antitrust class action for interlocutory appeal to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (see 2311290042), said the Chamber’s amicus brief Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.Read More >>

The FTC's appeal of the district court’s July 11 denial of its motion for a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy (see 2307110031) “is every bit about the right process for merger review as it is about the denial of relief,” FTC attorney Imad Abyad told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in oral argument Wednesday.Read More >>

Videogame software and hardware companies manufactured, published, marketed and sold gaming products “specifically developed and designed to cause the addiction" experienced by minors and other users, alleged a 19-count complaint Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-16566) against 15 defendants in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.Read More >>

A T-Mobile employee downloaded, without the customer's consent, the private images and videos from a cellphone that customer had traded in, alleged a Nov. 17 negligence complaint (docket 4:23-cv-05166) in Washington Superior Court that removed Wednesday to U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington in Richland.Read More >>

The Constitution vests all judicial power in the Article III courts, yet the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1984 Chevron decision holds that courts “must abdicate their independent judgment” and defer to federal agencies’ “interpretation of ambiguous statutes.” So said Relentless, Huntress…Read More >>