Twenty Republican attorneys general support the 20 industry petitioners asking the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate the FCC’s digital discrimination order on grounds it exceeds agency authority and lacks clear congressional intent (see 2404230032). The AGs made their argument in an amicus brief Thursday (docket 24-1179).

The American Civil Rights Project supports the 20 industry petitioners arguing that the 8th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court should vacate the FCC’s digital discrimination broadband rule since it runs afoul of the law and isn’t based on clear congressional intent (see 2404230032), according to the nonprofit’s amicus brief. It was filed Wednesday in docket 24-1179.

Vermont’s net neutrality law seems in good shape legally following two significant, late-April decisions by the FCC and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said experts on the statute. ISP groups must decide what to do with their 2018 lawsuit at U.S. District Court of Vermont now that the case can resume following the 2nd Circuit ruling.

San Diego County plaintiff Melissa Ryan has experienced an uptick in spam calls since an early January data breach at her mortgage lender, loanDepot, said her negligence class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-03630) Thursday U.S. District Court for Central California.

Andre Dubus, author of The Garden of Last Days, and Susan Orlean, who wrote The Orchid Thief, sued Nvidia Thursday for copyright infringement in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco, alleging the tech company used their works to train its NeMo Megatron large language models for AI.

Comedy record label 800 Pound Gorilla Media discloses consumers’ Facebook ID (FID) and the titles of videos they have viewed, in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), alleged a class action Thursday (docket 3:24-cv-00787) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.

Two plaintiffs filed an unjust enrichment class action Wednesday against InMarket Media over its collection of consumers’ location data (docket 1:24-cv-11170). The filing in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts came the same day the FTC finalized a settlement with the data aggregator (see 2405010071).

Medical devices company Masimo and its CEO Joe Kiani made “materially false and misleading statements” touting “purportedly strong demand” for its products following its $1 billion purchase of consumer audio products company Sound United in April 2022, alleged a verified shareholder derivative class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00781) in U.S. District Court for Southern California.

A researcher who developed a browser extension that would allow Facebook users to “turn off their newsfeed” preemptively has sued Meta, seeking a judicial declaration that his software tool is “immunized from legal liability” under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

GTT Americas has attempted to avoid its obligation to make commission payments to Warner Telecomm under a 20-year-old master sales agreement, alleged a fraud complaint Wednesday (docket 5:24-cv-00253) in U.S. District Court for Eastern North Carolina.