The seven state plaintiffs in the massive Telephone Consumer Protection Act case against multiple defendants oppose as coming too late in advance of a June trial Tuesday’s motion by defendant Scott Shapiro's attorneys to withdraw as his counsel, said their opposition Wednesday (docket 4:20-cv-02021) in U.S. District Court for Southern Texas in Houston. The states estimate Shapiro was responsible for nearly 40% of the 742.3 million calls made to consumers whose numbers were on the national do not call registry (see 2302220001). Burns & Levinson's Shepard Davidson and Kane Russell's David Thrasher seek to withdraw from the case.

Attorneys general in New York and more than 45 states waited too long to bring an antitrust lawsuit against Meta for alleged anticompetitive conduct in its buys of Instagram and WhatsApp, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit ruled Thursday, affirming a district court decision, in docket 21-7078.

A $30 million Kansas cap on state USF is constitutional, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled last week. The court affirmed a decision by the state’s Shawnee District Court in Blue Valley Tele-Communications v. Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC).

Plaintiff Anne Lightoller’s “cut-and-paste job belies the lack of merit to her claims,” said JetBlue’s Tuesday motion to dismiss (docket 3:23-cv-00361) a privacy case in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.

More than a year after the court "set in motion an action plan" to permit plaintiffs Craigville Telephone and Consolidated Telephone to contact T-Mobile subscribers who experienced fake ring tones, the plaintiffs “still have had no meaningful contact” with any of them, said the plaintiffs in a joint motion Wednesday (docket 1:19-cv-07190) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago to resolve discovery disputes involving those consumer contacts.

U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Carter ordered the arbitration award in an Amazon seller dispute to be held in abeyance pending the court’s resolution of petitioner Cowin Technology’s forthcoming motion to remand the case to federal court, Cowin's motion to vacate, and any Amazon cross-motion to confirm, said the Tuesday order (1:23-cv-03054) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana in Monroe granted Children’s Health Defense's (CHD) unopposed motion Tuesday (docket 3:22-cv-01213) for leave to file an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs Missouri and Louisiana’s motion for a preliminary injunction in a freedom of speech lawsuit against President Joe Biden and some 60 individuals and government agencies.

An Illinois plaintiff’s claims fail, said T-Mobile's response to a February complaint that a Metro by T-Mobile store violated the Federal Communications Act (FCA) and Stored Communications Act (SCA) in a SIM card swap. T-Mobile filed a motion to dismiss (docket 2:23-cv-00271) the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

CTIA hailed a decision by Judge Alfred Irving of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, who struck expert witnesses from a long-standing RF lawsuit filed against Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm and other companies. Irving handed down an 83-page decision Tuesday that considered each of the experts and why he was dismissing their testimony.

TocMail’s failure to back up with “actual evidence” its allegation that Microsoft misled the public into believing its Safe Links product offered protection from IP evasion cost TocMail billions in lost profits from its own IP evasion protection product (see 2212150030), said the 11th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s opinion Tuesday (docket 22-10223).