The district court correctly concluded that when purchasing toll-free calls from third parties that were destined for AT&T’s customers, Core Communications didn’t provide its tariffed switched access services to AT&T and therefore couldn’t collect from AT&T its tariffed rates for that service, said AT&T’s appellee brief Thursday (docket 23-3022) at the 3rd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court. Core’s appeal seeks to reverse the district court’s Oct. 13 summary judgment decision in AT&T’s favor (see 2310160018).

The FCC’s March 7 response opposing Essential Network Technologies and MetComm.net's Feb. 26 emergency motion to expedite consideration of the companies' E-rate program appeal “confirms that the motion should be granted,” according to the petitioners’ reply Wednesday (docket 24-1027) at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack for Eastern New York in Central Islip adopted U.S. Magistrate Judge James Wicks' Jan. 19 report and recommendation (R&R) and granted summary judgment for Crown Castle on all three of its claims against Oyster Bay, New York (see 2401220028), said her signed memorandum and order Wednesday (docket 2:21-cv-06305).

Defendants Abdoulaye Niang, Alexander Niang, Mewza LLC, Abarika LLC and Henan Fanding Network Technology fraudulently claim they are original creators of the Rainbow Friends video game characters “Purple” and “Green,” alleged a trademark infringement suit Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-01913) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Nearly 800,000 class members suffered theft of their personally identifiable information (PII) and invasion of privacy in a data breach at New York-based labor union Unite Here, alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-01904) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Dotdash Meredith, publisher of more than 40 magazines, including People, Better Homes & Gardens and Southern Living, sells subscribers’ purchase information without providing prior notice of the disclosures, as required under Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act (NISNPIA), alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-00046) in U.S. District Court for Utah.

Optical store chain Eyemart Express tracks users’ activity on its website without their consent and without disclosing the tracking practices, alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00621) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

Twenty industry and business groups, including CTIA, USTelecom and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, seek expedited briefing and oral argument on their consolidated petitions for review challenging the lawfulness of the FCC’s Nov. 20 digital discrimination order (see 2402290002), said their motion Wednesday (docket 24-1183) in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

A Mayo Clinic newsletter customer received a “barrage of unwanted junk mail” after the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research rented or sold information about her subscription purchase to third parties, alleged a privacy class action Tuesday (docket 4:24-cv-00033) in U.S. District Court for Utah in Salt Lake City. The suit alleges Mayo violated Utah’s Notice of Intent to Sell Nonpublic Personal Information Act (NISNPIA).

Univision “secretly discloses” the titles and URLs of videos subscribers view on the Univision Now video streaming platform, in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act, alleged a class action Tuesday (docket 5:24-cv-01517) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.