AT&T removed a Dec. 15 fraud case involving an allegedly faulty Simplifi router operating on its FirstNet network from Circuit Court of Waukesha County to the U.S. District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee, said its notice of removal Monday (docket 2:24-cv-00088).

The Dec. 18 report from U.S. Magistrate Judge Lee Dunst for Eastern New York in Central Islip erred for multiple reasons when it recommended the dismissal of AT&T’s cell tower complaint against Muttontown, New York (see 2312190057), said AT&T’s opposition brief Friday (docket 2:22-cv-05524).

U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar seeks leave to participate as an amicus in oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association in their challenges to the Florida and Texas social media content moderation laws, said Prelogar’s separate motions Monday (dockets 22-277 and 22-555).

The U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa should dismiss with prejudice plaintiff Zuania Vazquez-Padilla’s fraud complaint that alleged Cognizant Technology should be held accountable for a “willfully misleading” job description, said Cognizant's motion to dismiss Monday (docket 8:23-cv-02607).

Following last week’s oral argument in two Chevron cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (see 2401170074), the future of the doctrine appears in doubt.

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U.S. District Judge John Tharp for Northern Illinois in Chicago must use his “supervisory power” to dismiss the government’s indictment against Hytera Communications for failure to present evidence of trade secrets to the grand jury, said Hytera’s Jan. 11 motion (docket 1:20-cr-00688), originally filed under seal.

Numerous class actions challenging the “secret collection and monetization” of cellphone geolocation data have survived motions to dismiss and Norma Egan’s should as well, said the plaintiff's opposition Friday (docket 1:23-cv-11651) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston to X-Mode Social's motion to dismiss her first amended privacy complaint.

Two plaintiffs’ lawsuit against T-Mobile in a SIM swap fraud case “belongs in arbitration,” said the defendant's memorandum of law Friday (docket 1:23-cv-06159) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn in support of its motion to compel arbitration and stay the case, pending the outcome of that arbitration.

The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition seeks leave to intervene on the FCC’s behalf in opposing a petition asking that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals review the commission's Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing funding for Wi-Fi service and equipment on school buses under the agency's E-rate program (see 2312200040), said the coalition’s unopposed motion Friday (docket 23-60641).