Frustrations boiled over in the letter that David Schwartz, counsel for defendant Jacob Wohl, wrote Thursday (docket 1:20-cv-08668) to U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero for Southern New York in Manhattan. Schwartz urged the judge to “reconsider” his decision to hold firm on the Aug. 7 jury trial date for Wohl’s role in the robocall campaign to suppress Black citizens' mail-in votes in the 2020 election (see 2306050029).

After Dish’s February data breach disclosure (see 2305080049), Laura Vest, of Elliston, Virginia, was notified by credit monitoring service Experian that her personally identifiable information had been found on the dark web, alleged Vest’s class action (docket 1:23-cv-01462) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. Vest's class action was the ninth filed against Dish since the company disclosed the data breach.

T-Mobile, whose network has experienced several data breaches over the past few years, “deliberately underplayed” the severity and “obfuscated the nature of” its most recent breach, Feb. 24-March 27, alleged a class action (docket 4:23-cv-00393) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri in Kansas City. Though the breach began on Feb. 24, T-Mobile only became aware of “suspicious activity” on its network on March 27; it stopped the intrusion three days later, said the complaint. The carrier notified the public on April 28.

The FTC seeks to “impermissibly expand” the scope of the Telemarketing Sales Rule to impose “strict liability” on Ace Business Solutions and its owner Sandra Barnes for TSR violations allegedly committed by other defendants, said Ace’s and Barnes’ memorandum Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-00313) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego in support of their motion to dismiss the commission’s complaint for failure to state a claim.

Dahua USA and Hikvision USA detailed their arguments for why the equipment they make and sell in the U.S. doesn’t belong on the FCC’s list of “covered equipment” deemed to pose a threat to U.S. security. The subsidiaries of larger Chinese companies appealed the FCC Nov. 25 order barring authorization of network equipment on the covered list (see 2304250043) in a pleading filed Thursday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (docket 23-1032).

A plaintiff alleging Redbox violated Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA) is attempting to “walk back his allegations of harm to claim no Article III standing in order to run back to state court,” said Redbox’ Wednesday response (docket 3:23-cv-08760) opposing his May motion to remand the case to state court, after Redbox’ April removal to the U.S. District Court for Northern Florida in Pensacola under the Class Action Fairness Act.

Attorneys for Google requested a pre-motion conference to seek leave to move under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) an order to compel arbitration and stay litigation pending the outcome of arbitration in a fraud case brought by a Pixel 6 smartphone owner in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.

Dish Network didn’t use reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the sensitive, unencrypted personally identifiable information (PII) it was maintaining for customers and employees, alleged Corpus Christi, Texas, plaintiff Elizabeth Garza, in a class action Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-01458) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver.

A key issue before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals during oral argument Wednesday (see 2306070069) was whether Crown Castle has standing as a telecommunications service provider to bring Telecommunications Act allegations against the city of Pasadena, Texas, for prohibiting the deployment of wireless services.

More than three and a half years since Craigville Telephone and Consolidated Telephone filed their fake ring tones case against T-Mobile (see 2301270006) and more than two years since discovery began, the plaintiffs still “refuse to meet their Rule 26(a) damages disclosure obligations,” said T-Mobile’s memorandum of law Monday (docket 1:19-cv-07190) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago in support of its motion to compel the damages information.