Dish Network failed to properly secure customers’ and employees’ personal information from hackers in a February network outage, alleged a Tuesday class action (docket 1:23-cv-01168) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver.

Meta hasn’t “proceeded with dispatch” in responding to discovery in the consolidated Meta Pixel healthcare litigation, said the plaintiffs in a joint case management statement Tuesday (docket 3:22-cv-03580) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

Game developer King and Activision Blizzard misled contestants about their odds of winning a mobile game tournament to get them to bump up their in-app purchases, said a Tuesday fraud class action (docket 3:23-cv-00314) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Richmond.

A class action filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia in Huntington seeks to hold Altice USA and its Suddenlink internet service accountable under the West Virginia Consumer Credit Protection Act (WVCCPA) for the allegedly unlawful practice of “cramming its customers' bills with illegal fees and charges.” The fees and charges are “unauthorized and deceptive,” and have “a significant impact” on West Virginia consumers, alleged the complaint (docket 3:23-cv-00380).

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs for Massachusetts in Boston signed an order Tuesday (docket 1:22-cv-11551) granting the joint motion of plaintiff Vertex Towers and the defendant town of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, for the entry of an agreement for judgment now that the parties agreed to settle the case.

The New York Supreme Court “appears to have jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitration award, even when the parties are from different states,” said a memorandum of law filed Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-03054) by Amazon third-party seller Cowin Technology in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in support of its motion to remand the petition to state court (see 2304260027). Cowin seeks to recover $1.09 million in sales proceeds that Amazon seized -- and an arbitrator let Amazon keep -- when it accused the seller of violating its business solutions agreement (BSA) by manipulating product reviews.

TikTok and ByteDance removed to U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in El Dorado Tuesday a complaint filed March 28 in Union County Circuit Court in which Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) alleges Tik Tok and its parent company are duping Arkansas consumers about the risks that the Chinese government may gain access to their personal data.

The district court order denying Verizon’s motion to compel arbitration in a class action over hidden fees in consumers’ wireless service bills should be reversed, said the carrier in a Monday reply brief (docket 22:16020) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court, challenging the lower court’s denial of Verizon’s motion to compel the disputes of 27 California consumers to arbitration (see 2303270034).

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Vox Network Solutions’ April 21 opposition to Gage Technologies’ motion to dismiss Vox’s misappropriation of trade secrets complaint (see 2304240010) “makes clear that nothing actionable happened” while individual defendants Kristopher McGreevey and Kevin Frazier worked for Vox, said Gage’s reply brief Tuesday (docket 3:22-cv-09135) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. Vox alleges McGreevey, its then regional sales director, and Frazier, then senior account executive, conspired with Gage to “raid and exploit” confidential Vox information and resources in order to “poach” Vox clients and employees.