Notices of appearance in In Re: Apple Inc. Smartphone Antitrust Litigation are due on or before April 17, said a text-only revised briefing schedule Friday at the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. In their briefs, parties should address what steps they have taken to pursue alternatives to centralization including engaging in informal coordination of discovery and scheduling, said the order.

Cain King of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, provided his name, Social Security number and other personally identifiable information (PII) to SouthState Bank, which failed to keep it confidential and to protect it from unauthorized access and disclosure, alleged a class action Friday (docket 8:24-cv-00849) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.

The FCC's Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040) is an "unlawful exercise" of the commission's statutory authority "and may damage American students' health and diminish their educational achievement," said Michigan State University law professor Adam Candeub in a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court amicus brief Friday (docket 23-60641).

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) is moving with apparent speed to corral the growing volume of AT&T data breach class actions into a single, centralized proceeding.

The plaintiffs in a negligence complaint vs. LastPass allege the theft of their cryptocurrency and digital assets were due to LastPass’ willful and knowing failure to warn them that information stored in their LastPass Vaults could be accessed following an August 2022 data breach.

The former chief technology officer of Lifetoken Software abruptly resigned March 1 and is holding the company “hostage, seeking to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars” from the firm before he returns its property, Lifetoken's complaint alleged Friday (docket 1:24-cv-02587) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. Lifetoken claims violations of the Defend Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Abuse and Stored Communications Acts.

Defendant Vivek Ramaswamy disagrees with U.S. Magistrate Judge Kimberly Jolson’s April 2 order granting plaintiff Thomas Grant’s motion for limited expedited discovery, and asks that the court set aside the order because it’s “clearly erroneous and contrary to law,” according to Ramaswamy’s objection Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00281) in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus.

T-Mobile negligently allowed a SIM swap to occur, enabling an identity thief to take over a customer’s phone number and create an account using her personal information and phone number, alleged a Feb. 27 fraud complaint (docket 8:24-cv-00734) filed in Orange County, California, Superior Court and removed Thursday to U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.

Disability law “must be considered” when determining whether standards incorporated by reference into federal regulations are reasonably available as the Administrative Procedure Act requires, said the American Foundation for the Blind and Prime Access Consulting, which promotes accessible websites and web content, in an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 23-1311) at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta's (D) answering brief March 13 in defense of AB-587, the state's social media transparency law, "does nothing to change the key facts and law that compel reversal" in X's favor, said the company's reply brief Wednesday (docket 24-271) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court in support of that reversal.