The parties in a privacy class action vs. NBCUniversal and Peacock TV haven't engaged in any settlement discussions and anticipate a five-day trial, they said in a joint letter and proposed scheduling order Monday (docket 1:23-cv-09433). They were submitted under a Jan. 22 order and notice of initial conference from U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick for Southern New York in Manhattan.

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U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni for Southern New York in Manhattan granted Warner Bros. Discovery's motion to dismiss a class action brought by two WBD shareholders alleging that false and misleading statements were in the offering materials that preceded the transaction from which WBD emerged (see 2302160002), said her signed opinion and order Monday (docket 1:22-cv-08171). She dismissed the case with prejudice.

Grant Herrmann, the law firm representing authors Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage in their Jan. 5 copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, is being sidelined by counsel for the other 29 authors and the Authors Guild, it wrote U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein for Southern New York in Manhattan in a letter Monday (docket 1:23-cv-08292).

Ganiyu Jaiyeola, the former Apple metallurgist whose appeal seeks injunctive relief to block Apple, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon from advertising the iPhone 15 Pro as a titanium device (see 2401080002), “is a pro se serial litigant who has been sanctioned in multiple jurisdictions across the country for repeatedly filing baseless petitions,” said AT&T’s answering brief Monday (docket 23-4027) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This appeal “is similarly meritless and abusive,” it said.

NovaTech, registered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, its executives and directors, and Does 1-500 conspired to commit fraud via a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme targeted to investors “with little to no experience” in trading crypto assets and foreign exchange, alleged a racketeering class action Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill for the District of Idaho in Coeur d’Alene denied Kochava’s motion to dismiss the FTC’s first amended complaint in a privacy lawsuit over geolocation data, said his signed order Saturday (docket 2:22-cv-00377).

TrueAccord and AT&T Mobility falsely attempted to collect on a debt that was already paid, alleged Mina Shenoda in a complaint Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00216) in U.S. District Court for Northern Ohio in Cleveland.

Of the 23 negligence class actions against Comcast arising from the October Citrix data breach, only the plaintiffs in Diamond v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC d/b/a Xfinity plaintiffs oppose transfer to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for coordinated pretrial proceedings in the data security breach litigation, said movant Kenneth Hasson in a Friday reply (docket 3099). The filing was in support of a motion for transfer and centralization (see 2401120011) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML).

Santa Monica resident Marlon Siguenza joined plaintiff Daniel Kissick’s October fraud lawsuit against X (see 2311020028), said the first amended complaint (FAC) Friday (docket 23-610081) in San Francisco County Superior Court. The complaint alleges violations of California's Automatic Renewal Law (ARL) under its Business and Professional Code and its Consumer Legal Remedies Act.