The federal TikTok ban that takes effect Jan. 19 is “unprecedented” because Congress has never “expressly singled out and shut down a specific speech forum,” said TikTok/ByteDance's opening brief Thursday (docket 24-1113) in the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit challenging the ban’s constitutionality (see 2405070045).

Huawei and PanOptis Patent Management are in dispute over whether conditions were met requiring Huawei to make a contingent payment under the terms of a January 2020 patent agreement, said a complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-04708) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

UiPath, a business automation software company, mispresented the success of its AI-themed turnaround strategy, alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-04702) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. The suit names CEO Daniel Dines, former CEO Robert Enslin and Chief Financial Officer Ashim Gupta as defendants.

IGN Entertainment integrates at least one application programming interface (API) that lets companies open their application data and functionality to external third-party developers and business partners, alleged a Video Privacy Protection Act class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-11579) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.

Despite assurances from T-Mobile that it had implemented security measures to prevent additional SIM swaps of Abhishek Gurnani's wireless phone number, the carrier “did nothing to prevent future attacks,” alleged Gurnani's class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-05088) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Office Depot spy trackers capture sensitive information of subscribers to the company's email list, including when they open and read messages, their location, IP address and to whom emails are forwarded, alleged a privacy class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-01463) in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Phoenix.

Tilting Point Media agreed to pay a $500,000 settlement resolving privacy allegations involving the SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off game app, said a news release Tuesday from California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto.

The ISP petitioners’ consolidated motion to stay the FCC’s net neutrality order (see 2406110073) “attempts to replay the same legal challenges they ran unsuccessfully in 2015,” said the commission's opposition Tuesday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (dockets 24.7000, 24.3449, 24.3450, 24.3497, 24.3504, 24.3507, 24.3508, 24.3510, 24.3511, 24.3517, 24.3519, 24.3538).

Adobe deceived consumers by hiding early termination fees for its Photoshop and Acrobat subscriptions, among others, and by not making it easy for them to cancel, alleged an FTC complaint Monday (docket 5:24-cv-03630) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

Nexstar Media published false statements about former WOOD-TV Grand Rapids, Michigan, news director Stanton Tang involving Gay Pride coverage in the city in June 2023, alleged Tang’s defamation complaint (docket 1:24-cv-00616). A Kent County, Michigan, resident, Tang filed July 12 in U.S. District Court for Western Michigan in Grand Rapids.