Southern Theatres, a movie theater chain with three in North Carolina, is sharing customers’ private video viewing information without obtaining their consent, alleged a Wednesday Video Privacy Protection Act class action in U.S. District Court for Middle North Carolina (docket 1:23-cv-00346).

More than a year after the court "set in motion an action plan" to permit plaintiffs Craigville Telephone and Consolidated Telephone to contact T-Mobile subscribers who experienced fake ring tones, the plaintiffs “still have had no meaningful contact” with any of them, said the plaintiffs in a joint motion Wednesday (docket 1:19-cv-07190) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago to resolve discovery disputes involving those consumer contacts.

The seven state plaintiffs in the massive Telephone Consumer Protection Act case against multiple defendants oppose as coming too late in advance of a June trial Tuesday’s motion by defendant Scott Shapiro's attorneys to withdraw as his counsel, said their opposition Wednesday (docket 4:20-cv-02021) in U.S. District Court for Southern Texas in Houston. The states estimate Shapiro was responsible for nearly 40% of the 742.3 million calls made to consumers whose numbers were on the national do not call registry (see 2302220001). Burns & Levinson's Shepard Davidson and Kane Russell's David Thrasher seek to withdraw from the case.

A $30 million Kansas cap on state USF is constitutional, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled last week. The court affirmed a decision by the state’s Shawnee District Court in Blue Valley Tele-Communications v. Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC).

Attorneys general in New York and more than 45 states waited too long to bring an antitrust lawsuit against Meta for alleged anticompetitive conduct in its buys of Instagram and WhatsApp, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit ruled Thursday, affirming a district court decision, in docket 21-7078.

U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett for Maryland in Baltimore signed a memorandum opinion Tuesday (docket 1:22-cv-02456) granting defendant Global Tower’s Jan. 31 motion to dismiss with prejudice property owner Olcan III’s claims for negligent misrepresentation, negligence and public nuisance emanating from a dispute over a rooftop cell tower.

U.S. District Court Judge Dale Fischer for Central California granted plaintiff “John Doe’s” motion to remand a privacy case against the Cedars-Sinai health system to California Superior Court in Los Angeles, said her Monday order (docket 2:23-cv-00870). Cedars-Sinai removed the case to district court in February.

An Illinois plaintiff’s claims fail, said T-Mobile's response to a February complaint that a Metro by T-Mobile store violated the Federal Communications Act (FCA) and Stored Communications Act (SCA) in a SIM card swap. T-Mobile filed a motion to dismiss (docket 2:23-cv-00271) the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Carter ordered the arbitration award in an Amazon seller dispute to be held in abeyance pending the court’s resolution of petitioner Cowin Technology’s forthcoming motion to remand the case to federal court, Cowin's motion to vacate, and any Amazon cross-motion to confirm, said the Tuesday order (1:23-cv-03054) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

TocMail’s failure to back up with “actual evidence” its allegation that Microsoft misled the public into believing its Safe Links product offered protection from IP evasion cost TocMail billions in lost profits from its own IP evasion protection product (see 2212150030), said the 11th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s opinion Tuesday (docket 22-10223).