Walmart’s April 12 motion seeking 7th Circuit interlocutory review to challenge the constitutional validity of the FTC’s litigation powers (see 2304130002) is an “unwarranted” delay tactic, said the FTC’s opposition brief Monday (docket 1:22-cv-03372) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Warner Bros. Discovery and CEO David Zaslav “accomplished” the April 2022 WarnerMedia buy from AT&T with offering documents “that misrepresented key components of WarnerMedia’s business,” said the plaintiffs’ opposition Friday (docket 1:22-cv-08171) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York to WBD’s April 7 motion to dismiss their consolidated amended securities fraud complaint (see 2304100035). WBD’s motion to dismiss called the lawsuit “a classic case of pleading by hindsight.”

Meta will move for an order to dismiss Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation on Aug. 16 before U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco, said a Monday notice of motion (docket 3:22-cv-03580) and motion to dismiss the class action. The case involves healthcare providers’ use of the Meta Pixel tracking tool on their websites for targeted advertising.

California’s shift to a state USF flat fee discriminates against people with less income, said minority advocates in a proposed amicus brief Monday at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. They supported T-Mobile and subsidiaries’ challenge to the CPUC order, which took effect last month, to set a $1.11 per-line surcharge to fund state USF (see 2305020038). “The low-income individuals who are the intended beneficiaries of the surcharge-funded program will be hardest hit,” wrote the Multicultural Media Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC), ALLvanza, NAACP's California Hawaii State Conference and LatinoJustice.

Sony has been aware of a shutter failure issue on its Alpha 7 III mirrorless camera (a7 III) since soon after its release in 2017, but it denied coverage outside the one-year limited warranty period, alleged a Saturday fraud class action (docket 4:23-cv-00177) in U.S. District Court for Northern Florida in Tallahassee.

The court should deny defendants Amazon, Audible and Blackstone Audio's motion to dismiss parts of a copyright infringement lawsuit, said plaintiff Teri Woods Publishing (TWP) in a Friday memorandum of law (docket 1:23-cv-00507) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.

Lumen and AT&T reached an agreement to resolve all claims asserted by the parties in their case, said their joint notice of settlement Friday (docket 1:22-cv-02206) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. Their motion asks the court to vacate their June 20 scheduling conference and to stay all discovery deadlines.

The “secret company documents” that Elon Musk began releasing six weeks after buying Twitter in October “confirm everything” that former President Donald Trump and his co-plaintiffs alleged about the social media platform’s censorship conspiracy but that the district court deemed not plausible, Trump and his co-plaintiffs said in a reply brief Friday (docket 22-15961). It was filed in their 9th Circuit appeal of the District Court for the Northern District of California’s dismissal of their First Amendment complaint against Twitter and its former CEO Jack Dorsey.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) and Missouri AG Andrew Bailey (R) added a claim for class action certification and removed President Joe Biden from the injunction they seek against nearly 70 governmental officials and departments in their third amended complaint against Biden in (docket 3:22-cv-01213) Friday in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.

Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg for the District of Columbia granted in part and denied in part defendant Synchrony Bank’s motion to dismiss pro se plaintiff Na’eem Betz’s second amended Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint, said Boasberg’s signed order Monday (docket 1:22-cv-02235).