Wisconsin Bell failed to persuade the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to grant its petition for an en banc rehearing of an August decision reversing and remanding a lower court ruling regarding how much the company charged schools and libraries through the FCC's E-rate program (see 2308020067). The opinion, released Tuesday in case 22-1515, noted that no judge sought a vote for a rehearing.

Greg Bostard, the former Comcast utility pole worker who wants Verizon to pay for his medical monitoring due to his 29 years of exposure to Verizon’s toxic lead cables (see 2308240005), amended his class action Friday to assert that he’s not seeking personal injury damages but rather relief for the “present economic injury” he suffers by having to pay for his own lead-poisoning tests.

The seven months Norton Healthcare waited between learning of a May 9 data breach in its servers and its Dec. 8 notification to affected patients deprived plaintiff Logan Aldridge and class members of the ability to “promptly mitigate potential adverse consequences” resulting from it, alleged Aldridge's class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00025) in U.S. District Court for Kentucky in Louisville.

Jane Hart aims to hold Mr. Cooper Group mortgage company and parent Nationstar Mortgage accountable for the harms it caused, and will continue to cause, to nearly 15 million individuals affected by a “massive and preventable” Oct. 31 data breach, said the Tennessee resident’s class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00093) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

Defendant Charlie Green knowingly and willingly breached a licensing agreement by asserting a copyright claim to a musical composition he didn’t own, said a copyright infringement complaint Friday (docket 7:24-cv-00256) brought by Jaze Ltd. in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in White Plains.

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.

U.S. District Judge Damon Leichty for Northern Indiana in South Bend denied plaintiff Donald Nicodemus’ motion for a permanent injunction that would have blocked Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) from enforcing HB-1186, the state’s “buffer law,” said the judge’s signed opinion and order Friday (docket 3:23-cv-00744).

Amazon seeks monetary sanctions against Julie Guo, counsel for former Amazon third-party seller Shenzhen Zongheng Domain Network, for submitting legal arguments in Zongheng’s May 8 motion to remand a vacatur petition to New York Supreme Court that she knew to be “legally frivolous.” Amazon filed its memorandum of law Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-03334) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan, seeking the sanctions under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Healthcare platform provider Navvis & Co. failed to protect Richard Lilly’s personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI) in a “preventable” cyberattack, alleged Lilly's class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-00063) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis.

Enrique Munoz's class action is one of a dozen named in a motion before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to transfer the cases in In Re: Citrix Data Security Breach Litigation to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings, said a Thursday filing (docket 1:23-cv-17096) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.