Quantum Metric’s (QM) “wiretapping” of CVS website visitors' electronic communications violates California and Pennsylvania privacy statutes, a class action against the data firm (docket 1:24-cv-01154) alleged Thursday in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta for the District of Columbia, in a ruling Wednesday (docket 1:20-cv-03010), granted in part and denied in part the New York Times' Jan. 19 motion to unseal more than two dozen trial exhibits introduced as evidence in September’s bench trial in the case brought by DOJ and the attorneys general of 48 states (see 2309120075).

Despite advertising that consumers can “pay any bill” using its “purportedly vast payment ‘network of billers,’” third-party bill payment platform Doxo “has no relationship with the overwhelming majority of billers in its supposed ‘network,'” the FTC alleged in a Thursday complaint (docket 2:24-cv-00569) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. The lawsuit names Doxo, CEO Steve Shivers and Vice President Roger Parks.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Talesha Saint-Marc for New Hampshire in Concord denied without prejudice the plaintiffs’ April 18 motion for alternative service against robocalling defendant Steve Kramer, said the judge’s text-only endorsed order Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-00073).

Standard General and its founder Soohyung Kim filed a civil complaint Wednesday charging that Allen Media CEO Byron Allen, Dish CEO Charlie Ergen and FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, along with lawmakers, unions and public interest groups, were partners in a conspiracy and race discrimination aimed at sinking Standard's $8.6 billion purchase of Tegna last year (see 2306010077). The filing was made in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “The FCC Chairwoman and her personal staffer blocked the deal at the behest of Mr. Allen, who used business allies and six-figure political donations to destroy Mr. Kim’s chances of acquiring TEGNA,” the complaint said.

Apple and Roblox acted in concert to “distribute, market, supply,” and sell the Roblox online game platform via its App Store and via in-game downloadable content and in-game purchases to boost their revenues at the expense of consumers, alleged a video game addiction class action (docket 6:24-cv-00762) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Orlando.

A Fort Worth, Texas-based company that claimed to have favorable contracts with electricity providers to operate cryptocurrency asset mining machines profitably lied to investors about how it would operate the machines, alleged the SEC Wednesday in a securities fraud complaint Wednesday (docket 4:24-cv-00365) in U.S. District Court for North Texas in Fort Worth. The suit names as defendants Geosyn Mining and founders CEO Caleb Ward of Smyrna, Georgia, and Chief Operating Officer George McNutt of Weatherford, Texas.

FullStory’s motion to dismiss Jane Doe’s third amended complaint (TAC) “turns on a false narrative created by selectively ignoring important facts alleged,” said Doe’s opposition (docket 3:23-cv-00059) to the data analytics firm’s motion to dismiss the TAC Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

The U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit should deny Essential Network Technologies and MetComm.Net's Feb. 14 petition challenging the authority of the FCC and the Universal Service Administrative Co. to withhold reimbursement of discounts for IT and broadband services that the two companies provided to schools under Section 254 of the Communications Act (see 2402200044), said the FCC’s opposition Wednesday (docket 24-1027).

A John Doe defendant living in Taiwan entered into a contract with fine art broker Sotheby’s and consigned three pieces of fine art nonfungible tokens (NFTs) created by the artist Beeple that were stolen from plaintiff Augusto Reyes, alleged Reyes' fraud complaint Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-03371) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.