Coastal TV is being forced to broadcast with a low-power transmitter that lacks sufficient power to cover its broadcast area due to a contract dispute with Mississippi TV, alleged a May 1 fraud complaint (docket 1:24-cv-00100), removed Tuesday from the Circuit Court of Lee County, Mississippi, to U.S. District Court for Northern Mississippi in Aberdeen.

Here are Communications Litigation Today's top stories from last week, in case you missed them. Each can be found by searching on its title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.

WarnerMedia Direct shares personal data of HBO Max users in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), an April 4 complaint alleged (docket 4:24-cv-00043). The complaint was removed Friday from General Sessions Court of Coffee County Tennessee to U.S. District Court for Eastern Tennessee in Winchester.

Google unlawfully obtained information about individuals who applied for or checked the status of a disability parking placard on the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) website, a privacy class action Friday (docket 5:24-cv-03176) alleged in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Genesys Cloud Services pushed up the shutoff date for its cloud services by nine months, to October, and has refused to provide requested assurances that cloud services would continue to the agreed date of July 2025, alleged a breach-of-contract complaint Friday (docket 1:24-cv-11379) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

Despite representing in a Feb. 14 news release that it was positioned well financially for fiscal 2024, defendants Fastly and its CEO Todd Nightingale misled investors even as the company was “experiencing a significant deceleration in growth,” a securities fraud class action alleged Friday (docket 3:24-cv-03170) in U.S. District Court for Northern California.

Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.

A data breach this month at Ascension Health prevented patients from completing health-related tasks and puts them at risk of future harm, said a negligence class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-00724) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s May 16 decision in Smith v. Spizzirri, holding that Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act compels district courts to stay, rather than dismiss, cases pending the outcome of arbitration (see 2405160028), “has no effect on the maintenance” of three plaintiffs' appeal against SiriusXM, said the plaintiffs' position statement in a joint status report Thursday (docket 23-4018) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court.

Programmatic advertising firm Direct Digital Holdings and three of its executives made false or misleading statements and failed to disclose material facts about the financial impact of a “'cookie-less’ advertising environment,” alleged a securities fraud class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-01940) in U.S. District Court for Southern Texas in Houston.