Student loan servicer Heartland ECSI “failed to institute proper security protocols” to protect individuals’ Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information (PII), alleged a negligence class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00699) in U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania.

U.S. District Judge Michael Watson for Southern Ohio in Columbus reserved ruling in part and denied in part Vivek Ramaswamy’s March 21 and April 1 motions to dismiss Thomas Grant’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint, said the judge’s signed opinion and order Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00281).

Verizon and TracFone Wireless seek the dismissal of Team Marketing Group’s one-count complaint for breach of contract, as the plaintiff fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), said their joint motion Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-20600) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

Healthcare institutions are “particularly vulnerable" to cyberattacks because of the value of the private information they collect and maintain, but defendant DocGo failed to follow cybersecurity best practices, allowing cuber thieves to gain access to current and former patients’ protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII), alleged a negligence class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-03594) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.

T-Mobile moved Wednesday to compel arbitration in an 18-case multidistrict data breach litigation because all the more than three dozen plaintiffs in those actions agreed “on numerous occasions” to arbitrate any claims they may have against T-Mobile, said its motion (docket 4:23-md-03073) in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri in Kansas City. The plaintiffs can’t avoid “their contractual obligations,” it said.

General Motors' “about-face” decision to stop selling driver data from OnStar-equipped vehicles, shortly after a March New York Times article that “exposed its deficient privacy practices,” supports the assertion that “its customers were not aware of GM’s surreptitious data collection and sharing,” alleged a class action (docket 4:24-cv-11221) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Flint.

LTD Broadband asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Wednesday to overturn the FCC's denial of its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase (RDOF) I auction long-form application. It filed a partially redacted petition (docket 24-1017). LTD was the largest RDOF winner, receiving an award of roughly $1.3 billion to deploy broadband to 528,088 locations across more than a dozen states (see 2012070039).

The Universal Service Administrative Co. owes Data Research Corp. (DRC) $9.9 million, plus interest, for broadband services it provided more than 20 years ago to the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDOE) under the federal E-rate program, DRC's complaint Wednesday alleges (docket 3:24-cv-01211) in U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico in San Juan.

The “hidden spy pixel trackers” that Target embeds in its marketing emails to customers violate Arizona’s Telephone, Utility and Communication Service Records Act, alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-01048) in U.S. District Court for Arizona.

Lingo Telecom, as a simple phone company, doesn’t belong as a defendant in the lawsuit that alleges political consultant Steve Kramer hired robocall broadcaster Life Corp. to send thousands of robocalls two days before the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary to people they thought were likely Democratic voters, said Lingo’s motion Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00073) in U.S. District Court for New Hampshire in Concord to dismiss the March 14 complaint.