The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals remanded to U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago the appeal of two hardware stores, Bay Hardware and Lunada Bay Hardware, that had argued unsuccessfully in the lower court that their supplier, Generac Power Systems, inundated them with fax solicitations in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Eleven Kentucky school districts and one in Oregon added their names Thursday to the ranks of districts nationwide bringing lawsuits against social media companies for their alleged roles in a growing youth mental health crisis in the U.S.

Though Google "abandoned" some of its anticompetitive Android app conduct under "regulatory enforcement" in Europe, India and South Korea, it hasn't made similar changes in the U.S., so a "bipartisan coalition" of 38 states and the District of Columbia "brought this case to change that." So said the states' brief Thursday (docket 3:21-md-02981) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in opposition to Google's motion to stay or defer trial in the multidistrict litigation challenging the allegedly antitrust practices of the Google Play Store.

Walleye Group, lead plaintiff in the insider-trading lawsuit against former top Intelsat officers and shareholders, can’t provide “a single specific fact” to show what information former Chairman David McGlade learned, how he learned it, or when, before he participated in the divestiture of $246 million in Intelsat stock, said McGlade’s reply brief (docket 4:20-cv-02341). The brief was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland in support of the defendants’ Jan. 19 motion to dismiss Walleye’s second amended complaint (SAC) (see 2301190044).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit should take up the Standard/Tegna broadcasters’ appeal of the FCC’s HDO, said NAB in an amicus filing Thursday. “This Court should treat this order according to its intent and effect—a de facto final denial of the license application—and hear the appeal,” NAB said in the brief filed late Thursday. Refusal to act is itself an agency final action, said the Standard/Tegna broadcast parties in a filing opposing the FCC’s motion asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to dismiss their appeal (see 2303280072). The FCC Media Bureau’s action “on gossamer evidence” injects “untenable unpredictability into license transfer applications,” NAB said.

State court lawsuits in Arkansas and California against social media companies this month are among a wave of actions against Meta and others for their alleged role in a growing mental health crisis in the U.S. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) sued Meta Tuesday for violating the state’s Public Nuisance Law and its Deceptive Trade Practices Act (ADTPA), plus unjust enrichment, said the complaint (docket 57CV-23-47) in Polk County Circuit Court. In California, plaintiffs cited Facebook’s, Instagram’s, Snapchat’s and TikTok’s product “defects.”

Google will present a motion to dismiss a consolidated privacy class action against it May 2, said attorney Benedict Hur in a Tuesday notice of motion to dismiss (docket 4:22-cv-05652) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

Thursday’s hearing on alleged collusion between tech and Biden administration officials was a “disgrace” because Republicans refused to allow cross-examination of two witnesses, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) and Sen. Eric Schmitt (R), Democrats said during a hearing before House Judiciary Committee members.

Kohl’s denies that it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (RFDCPA) “or any other statute or law alleged” in plaintiff Matilde Cowen’s Feb. 3 complaint (see 2302030043), said the defendant’s answer Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-00199) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.

McAfee isn’t the proper defendant to pro se plaintiff James Linlor’s allegations it’s cybersquatting on the cyberguard.com internet domain and preventing Linlor from pursuing a similarly named cybersecurity consultancy (see 2301310011), said its motion to dismiss Wednesday (docket 5:23-cv-00385) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.