Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) is investigating lead-covered cables that may be present in Arizona, a response to recent reports identifying them as a potential environmental and public health risk, her office said Wednesday.

Having won a preliminary injunction Aug. 31 blocking Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) from enforcing the state’s age-verification Social Media Safety Act on First Amendment grounds (see 2309010024), NetChoice asked the court Tuesday to deliver the statute a knockout punch.

Interlocutory review is designed to address “consequential, unsettled questions of law that can meaningfully change the trajectory of important, resource-intensive cases,” said T-Mobile’s memorandum of law Tuesday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago in support of its motion to certify the court’s Nov. 2 denial of T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss for interlocutory appeal to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Smartbiz Telecom isn't an originating provider and doesn't have the capability to make calls, said the VoIP provider Monday in a reply (docket 1:22-cv-23945) to the response from the office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) to its statement of material facts in the state's Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit (see 2311200027).

Google is allowing a "fake company" that's likely not U.S.-based to use its platform "to scam people,” alleged a fraud complaint (docket 1:23-cv-10352), removed Monday to U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Fifteen cryptocurrency users are suing MLB, its players and related entities for their sponsorship relationship with FTX Trading, the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in November 2022 in what SEC Chair Gary Gensler called a “house of cards” built on a “foundation of deception.” FTX "stole more than $8 billion" in class member funds, "the bulk of which has now vanished," said the class action (docket 1:23-cv-24479), filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

Many states that previously recognized state-law “analogs” to Chevron deference “have abolished those counterparts, either by statute or judicial decisions,” with no detriment, said five former state supreme court justices, a former state appeals court judge and the American Commitment Foundation in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief Monday (docket 22-1219). The brief was in support of the petitioners in Relentless v. Commerce Department that urge SCOTUS to do away with the Chevron doctrine.

Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.

Unknown defendants John Does 1-10 conspired to create cryptocurrency wallets in plaintiff Damien Sabella’s name by transferring funds from his Coinbase account, and he's now unable to access those wallets, said Sabella’s Nov. 22 complaint (docket 2:23-cv-09907) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.