A school bus is neither a classroom nor a library and that “makes short work of this case under basic principles of administrative law,” the opening brief said Tuesday (docket 23-60641) in support of a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals petition to defeat the FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040).
AT&T misled Discovery by “materially overstating WarnerMedia’s financial performance and misrepresenting and concealing the severity of WarnerMedia’s financial and business difficulties,” alleged a securities fraud suit Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-00420) in U.S. District Court for Delaware in Wilmington. The suit names AT&T, CEO John Stankey and Warner Bros. Discovery as defendants.
A school bus is neither a classroom nor a library and that “makes short work of this case under basic principles of administrative law,” the opening brief said Tuesday (docket 23-60641) in support of a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals petition to defeat the FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit gave Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua a partial victory Tuesday, ruling that the FCC’s definition of critical infrastructure is “overly broad.” However, the three-judge panel rejected arguments that video cameras and video-surveillance equipment the companies manufacture shouldn’t have been placed on the agency’s “covered list” of unsecure gear.
CTIA still disagrees with a Kentucky 911 law that was upheld in court Friday, the wireless industry association said Tuesday. The U.S. District Court for Eastern Kentucky ruled that federal law doesn’t preempt the state from requiring Lifeline providers to directly pay state 911 fees. Kentucky’s policy is constitutional and doesn’t frustrate Congress’ universal service objectives, the court said.
U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein for Southern New York in Manhattan denied the motion of 14 plaintiff authors in the first-filed copyright infringement suit against OpenAI in the Northern District of California to intervene in the four infringement actions against OpenAI and Microsoft filed subsequently in New York, said his signed opinion and order Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00084).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit gave Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua a partial victory Tuesday, ruling that the FCC’s definition of critical infrastructure is “overly broad.” However, the three-judge panel rejected arguments that video cameras and video-surveillance equipment the companies manufacture shouldn’t have been placed on the agency’s “covered list” of unsecure gear.
Though OnStar “ostensibly provides” Wi-Fi and location information for emergency services in case of an accident, customers were not aware the subscription in-vehicle security and communications service was “tracking data points about their driving” and sending it to their auto insurance companies to justify a rate increase, said a privacy class action (docket 2:24-cv-10804) Friday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit.
Every iPhone sale “guarantees revenue streams well beyond the initial purchase price,” said a class action Thursday (docket 24-cv-434085) in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleging violations of California’s Business and Professions Code. Plaintiff Kyle Whiteside of San Diego bought a new iPhone 13 in July 2021 from an Apple Store in Escondido, California.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin for Northern Illinois in Chicago granted T-Mobile’s motion to certify for interlocutory appeal to the 7th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court his Nov. 2 denial of the carrier’s motion to dismiss the claims of seven AT&T and Verizon customers seeking to vacate T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy on antitrust grounds (see 2311290042), said the judge’s signed memorandum opinion and order Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-03189).