The net neutrality draft order on the FCC's April 25 open meeting agenda (see 2404030043) will face much the same legal arguments as the 2015 net neutrality order did, with many of the same parties involved, we're told by legal experts and net neutrality watchers.

Wireless internet service provider Bloosurf, valued at $30 million in 2021, has lost "half its customers" and "significant" revenue and cash flow due to T-Mobile's interference, alleged Bloosurf’s complaint Wednesday (docket 8:24-cv-01047) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt in which it seeks $116 million in damages.

The FCC's Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040) is “contrary to law” because it “improperly expands” the schools and libraries universal service program under Section 254 of the Communications Act, said the Competitive Enterprise Institute in an amicus brief April 9 (docket 23-60641) at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Tyler should deny the State Department’s March 25 motion to dismiss the press censorship complaint brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and the Daily Wire and Federalist media outlets, said the plaintiffs’ opposition Wednesday (docket 6:23-cv-00609).

Plaintiffs Dean and Michelle Nasca oppose conditional transfer order 30 (CTO-30) in In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Liability Litigation, said their notice of opposition Wednesday (docket 3047) before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The plaintiffs will file a motion to vacate CTO-30, which listed its case against TikTok parent ByteDance and also included tag-along actions Putnam County School District vs. Alphabet Inc. et al and Cumberland County Board of Education vs. Meta Platforms Inc. et al.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should grant T-Mobile’s petition for interlocutory review of the district court’s denial of its motion to dismiss the antitrust claims of seven AT&T and Verizon customers who allege their own wireless rates soared as a result of T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy (see 2404090059), said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 24-8013).

Silicon Valley Mechanical (SVM) stored the personally identifiable information (PII) of plaintiff Patrick Brenan and class members “unencrypted, in an Internet-accessible environment” on its network, allowing cybercriminals to access it using an "extraction tool," alleged a negligence class action Wednesday (docket 5:24-cv-02147) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

ESO Solutions’ motion to strike the class allegations in a consolidated class action complaint (CCAC) involving its September data breach is “premature and meritless,” said the plaintiffs’ memorandum of law Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-01557) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin in opposition to ESO’s March 28 motion.

City of Hope National Medical Center had a responsibility to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of some 820,000 patients but failed to do so during an Oct. 13 data breach, alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-02890) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Riverside.

Plaintiff Subspace Omega, a network optimization service provider that closed in 2022, fails to allege exclusionary conduct, said Amazon’s motion Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01772) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle to dismiss Subspace’s antitrust suit.