Another shareholder derivative lawsuit seeks to hold AT&T’s current and former CEOs and chief financial officers, plus 12 current and former board members, accountable for allegedly covering up between March 2020 and July 27, 2023, what they knew about the existence and prevalence of toxic lead cables in AT&T’s possession, in violation of the Securities Exchange Act. The latest suit over legacy lead cables joins others filed in recent months against AT&T and Verizon (see 2308020046).

Amazon seeks monetary sanctions against Julie Guo, counsel for former Amazon third-party seller Shenzhen Zongheng Domain Network, for submitting legal arguments in Zongheng’s May 8 motion to remand a vacatur petition to New York Supreme Court that she knew to be “legally frivolous.” Amazon filed its memorandum of law Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-03334) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan, seeking the sanctions under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Internet searches can reveal a user’s “medical diagnoses, religious beliefs, financial stability, sexual desires, relationship status, family secrets, political leanings, and more,” so it’s “reasonable for the public to expect that their privacy and confidentiality are constitutionally protected,” said the American Civil Liberties Union in a news release Wednesday publicizing its Pennsylvania Supreme Court amicus brief (docket 98 MAP 2023). Other amici on the brief, filed Wednesday, are the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Library Freedom Project, Association of Research Libraries, Freedom to Read Foundation and Internet Archive.

AT&T and TS Mobility’s “deceptive trade practices” and "failure to supervise" their employees have deceived customers in violation of New Jersey law, said a Dec. 1 negligence class action in Bergen County Superior Court, removed Wednesday to U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark (docket 2:24-cv-00174).

The Republican National Committee plausibly alleges that Google’s conduct of relegating the RNC’s emails to supporters’ Gmail spam folders violates California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL), said the RNC’s opposition brief Wednesday (docket 2:22-cv-01904) in U.S. District Court for Eastern California in Sacramento to Google’s Nov. 16 motion to dismiss the group’s first amended complaint.

Unhappy with the FTC’s “scrutiny of its privacy practices,” Meta alleges various theories why the entire agency is unconstitutional, but its latest arguments show that its claims “have no support,” said the FTC’s reply brief Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-03562) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in support of its Dec. 13 motion to dismiss Meta’s claims.

Opthamology provider The Retina Group of Washington (RGW) notified patients on its website from July 7 to Nov. 4 of a data breach it experienced March 26 but didn’t disclose that current and former patients’ personally identifiable (PII) or personal health information (PHI) were compromised, a class action alleged Tuesday (dockets 8:24-cv-00079) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt.

The plaintiffs in six data breach class actions against ESO Solutions are seeking an order consolidating their related cases and one setting scheduling deadlines, said their coordinated joint motion Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-01557) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin. ESO is a supplier of data management software to hospitals and first responders.

BMW of West St. Louis defended against the allegations of Telephone Consumer Protection Act wrongdoing in plaintiff Daniel Human’s Dec. 14 first amended complaint by launching into an unusually lengthy attack on the statute’s constitutionality.

Google’s conversational AI tool, Bard, introduced in March, is “inherently flawed” because data that's used for creating the algorithm isn't "precise," making the answers given to user prompts "inaccurate,” alleged pro se plaintiff Jeffrey Ito in a complaint Monday (docket 24PS-cv-00061) in Los Angeles County Superior Court.