The U.S. government will seek dismissal of Vermont National Telephone (VTEL) litigation against Dish Network designated entities (DE) Northstar Wireless and SNR Wireless over allegations of fraud in the 2015 AWS-3 auction. The U.S. is the relator in the VTEL litigation. DOJ filed a notice of intent to intervene and dismiss Friday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (docket 1:15-cv-00728). It hasn't said in court filings the reasoning behind its move to get the case dismissed, and didn't comment Monday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2022 reversed the lower court's dismissal of VTEL's False Claims Act suit against the Dish DEs and remanded it to the D.C. District Court (see 2205170026).

Apple dominates the cloud storage market “by rigging the competitive playing field so that only iCloud can win,” alleged a fraud complaint (docket 5:24-cv-01270) Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Business Insider parent Insider Inc. violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) by using a tracking tool that collects the IP addresses of visitors to its website without prior consent and a court order, alleged a class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-01566) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

A long-time T-Mobile customer is suing the carrier over the “regulatory programs & telco recovery fee” on its monthly invoices, said a class action removed Thursday to U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.

Petitioners Wendy Smith, Michelle Martinez and Kenneth Turner are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s affirmation of the district court’s dismissal of their case after compelling their claims to arbitration, saying the case “presents an important question of statutory construction under the Federal Arbitration Act.” Their opening brief was filed Feb. 26 (docket 22-1218).

Telephone Consumer Protection Act plaintiff Thomas Grant seeks limited expedited discovery to preserve relevant records of calls that Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s 2024 presidential campaign made to Grant and his putative class, said the plaintiff’s motion Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00281) in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus.

OpenAI, under its new board put in place during a tumultuous period in November amid Sam Altman’s ouster and return as CEO, is "refining" its artificial general intelligence (AGI) to maximize profits for Microsoft, "rather than for the benefit of humanity,” said Elon Musk’s fraud complaint Thursday (24-612746) in San Francisco County Superior Court.

A Liberty, Missouri, hospital “disregarded” Dan Cook's rights by “intentionally, willfully, recklessly, or negligently failing to take and implement adequate and reasonable measures” to protect his personal health (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII), alleged Cook's class action Wednesday (docket 4:24-cv-00134) in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri in Kansas City.

The arguments in the State Department’s opposition to expedited preliminary injunction discovery in the First Amendment case brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and the right-leaning Daily Wire and Federalist media outlets lack merit, said the plaintiffs’ reply Wednesday (docket 6:23-cv-00609) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Tyler in support of that expedited discovery.

Two streaming video apps violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by integrating Meta tracking code into their platforms to disclose subscribers’ video viewing history to Meta for advertising and marketing purposes, said separate class actions against MLB.tv and FitOn.