Amazon wants the U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana in Indianapolis to strike its outside counsel, Robert Cruzen of Klarquist Sparkman, from the plaintiffs' preliminary witness list, said Amazon’s motion Tuesday (docket 1:22-cv-02246). Plaintiffs Annie Oakley Enterprises and its owner Renee Gabet allege Amazon ignored the trademark infringement conduct of its third-party sellers (see 2302160029).

Disney, Hulu and Netflix provide video service and therefore owe franchise fees, said Dallas and 28 other Texas cities Monday in their memorandum in opposition to defendants’ motions to dismiss (docket DC-22-09128) the case in the 14th District Court of Dallas County.

Plaintiff Tiffany McDougall’s allegations that Samsung misrepresented the storage capacity of her Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G smartphone “must be resolved through arbitration” under the terms and conditions she agreed to when she bought the device, said Samsung’s memorandum of law Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-00168) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan in support of its motion to compel.

“Downstream defendants” Amazon.com, Audible and Blackstone jointly moved (docket 1:23-cv-00507) the U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn to grant their motion to dismiss plaintiff Teri Woods Publishing’s complaint with prejudice, saying Friday the copyright lawsuit “should never have been brought.” They requested an oral argument before U.S. District Court Judge Dora Irizarry at a date and time to be determined by the court.

Google monopolized, “or attempted to monopolize,” key technologies that make digital advertising possible, said DOJ and eight states, in a Monday opposition response (docket 1:23-cv-00108) to Google’s motion to dismiss their antitrust case in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria. Its “anticompetitive conduct” thwarted competition and “stifled innovation” in digital display advertising technology for 15 years, it said.

The rejection of AT&T’s cell tower application in Muttontown, New York, “created a significant public safety issue as residents, visitors, and first responders do not have access to reliable wireless services in this area,” said AT&T’s opposition Monday (docket 2:22-cv-05524) to Muttontown’s motion to dismiss AT&T’s complaint in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Central Islip.

The U.S. District Court for Delaware should deny AT&T’s motion to dismiss Averon’s first amended complaint because Averon “pled facts that adequately support each of its causes of action,” said Averon’s redacted answer Monday (docket 1:22-cv-01341).

The complicated series of transactions in the Standard/Tegna deal and the companies’ own submission of “narrowly crafted” concessions at a “late stage” of the process led to the protracted review of the purchase and subsequent hearing process (see [Ref;2304040063]), said the FCC in a partially redacted response filing Tuesday (docket 23-1084) with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The broadcasters' response is due Friday.

The FCC improperly used its authority to award AT&T “significant rate reductions and massive (though incalculable) refunds,” said Duke Energy’s opening brief Monday (docket 22-2220) at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in its petition for review of an FCC November order denying it reconsideration in a pole attachment rate dispute with AT&T (see 2211290053). The petition stems from a September 2021 Enforcement Bureau order partly granting AT&T's claims it was charged "unjust and unreasonable" pole attachment rates by Duke.

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