YouTube “unlawfully retains information” that identifies consumers “as having requested or obtained specific video materials or services from Google,” in violation of the New York Video Consumer Privacy Act, alleged a class action Oct. 4 (docket 5:22-cv-05713) in U.S. District Court in San Jose. Google maintains the digital records in violation of New York law, which requires video rental companies to destroy personally identifiable information (PII) “as soon as practicable” but no later than one year from the date the information is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, said the complaint.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin in Chicago on Friday denied T-Mobile’s motion to transfer the class action challenging its Sprint buy as anticompetitive to the same Southern District of New York court that cleared the transaction in early 2020. Durkin on Tuesday set a telephone status hearing for Oct. 21 at 9:45 a.m. CDT.

U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix denied the motion of Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, for an injunction quashing the House Jan. 6 Select Committee’s T-Mobile subpoena for Ward’s phone records as part of its investigation into her efforts to thwart certification of the 2020 election. It was Humetewa's second rejection of Ward's injunction request in less than a month, forcing the Arizona GOP chief's appeal to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in late September.