Comcast customer Vince Estevez and his wife experienced identity theft and were victims of financial fraud resulting from cloud computing company Citrix Systems’ Oct. 10 data breach, alleged their class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00800) against Citrix and its customer Comcast in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) is resisting calls by five individual TikTok users and TikTok itself to personally depose him during the discovery phase of the two consolidated cases that challenge the constitutionality of the state's TikTok ban, said Knudsen’s response Thursday (docket 9:23-cv-00061) in U.S. District Court for Montana in Missoula.

An Ohio court can and should call Google Search a common carrier, the state argued Friday. In a separate opposition brief, Google protested that it’s nothing like a common carrier: "Google is not a 'dumb pipe' or 'mere conduit.' The Ohio Chamber of Commerce supported the company, arguing in a Thursday amicus brief that Ohio’s attempt to regulate the search company would be “anti-business.”

Expect a U.S. Supreme Court majority to side with the tech industry in its content moderation fight against social media laws in Florida and Texas, experts told us in interviews last week.

The Texas Association of Business (TAB) petitioned the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court for review of the FCC’s updated data breach notification rules. The rules were adopted Dec. 13, released Dec. 21 and published in the Federal Register Feb. 12, said TAB's Thursday filing (docket 24-60085). They are effective March 13 (see 2402090035).

Since an April data breach at Emmanuel College in Boston, Sopiya Shrestha has experienced an uptick in spam calls concerning fraudulent communications, said her negligence class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-10434) against the school's trustees in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.

Comcast used “deficient data security practices” by relying on Citrix’s “flawed software applications” that resulted in a “massive and preventable” October data breach, alleged a fraud class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00793) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

A Feb. 16 motion for injunction by the plaintiffs in three nearly identical copyright class actions that were consolidated Nov. 9 in In Re: OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation requests “extraordinary and drastic relief,” said defendant OpenAI in its opposition to the motion Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-03223) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) seeks a stay in the case brought by seven media organizations to block enforcement of the state's "buffer law,” pending the outcome of a YouTuber’s appeal (docket 24-1099) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2401230006), said Rokita’s motion Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-01805) in U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana in Indianapolis. The media organizations, which include Nexstar, Scripps, Tegna and the Indianapolis Star, all oppose the stay, said Rokita’s motion.

A Tampa doctor’s T-Mobile account was improperly transferred to another individual who used the doctor's identity to attempt to buy fraudulent prescriptions of controlled substances, tried to transfer $100,000 from her retirement account and obtained money via a financial services platform, alleged Pina Panchal's negligence complaint Wednesday (docket 8:24-cv-00456) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.