NetChoice opposes as unjustifiable the Nov. 30 motion of Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) to deny NetChoice’s motion for summary judgment against SB-396, the state’s age-verification Social Media Safety Act, or at least delay consideration of it until discovery is complete (see 2312010039), said NetChoice’s opposition brief Monday (docket 5:23-cv-05105) in U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville.

T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy has resulted in “enhanced competition across the mobile wireless service industry,” not less, just as DOJ’s Antitrust Division, the FCC, two federal judges and others predicted that it would, said T-Mobile’s answer Monday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago to the antitrust class action by seven AT&T and Verizon customers alleging the transaction caused their own wireless rates to soar.

The seven plaintiffs seeking to challenge Indiana’s HB-1186 statute for unconstitutionally impeding the news media by making it a misdemeanor for journalists to come within 25 feet of police officers on official duty oppose Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) and his two co-defendants' Dec. 1 motion to dismiss their complaint (see 2312040003), according to their memorandum Friday (docket 1:23-cv-01805) in U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana in Indianapolis.

The U.S. Supreme Court shouldn’t overrule Chevron because it's a “bedrock principle of administrative law” that provides an appropriately tailored framework for judicial review of an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers, said the government’s responding brief on the merits Friday (docket 22-1219) in Relentless v. Commerce Department.

Defendants AT&T, Lumen and Verizon collectively removed to U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Lafayette what’s believed to be one of the first class actions brought by homeowners against the telecom industry for legacy lead-laden cables that reduced their property values.

A new shareholder derivative action seeks to hold Verizon, CEO Hans Vestberg, former Chief Financial Officer Matthew Ellis and 14 current and former board members accountable for Verizon’s “long-standing decision to bury and leave toxic telephone cables around the country indefinitely to contaminate ground water and pose other potential health risks to the public from exposure to these wires.” The complaint was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Trenton.

The seven plaintiffs seeking to vacate T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy on antitrust grounds oppose T-Mobile’s motion to certify for 7th Circuit interlocutory appeal the court’s Nov. 2 order denying its motion to dismiss the case (see 2311290042), said their opposition Thursday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. T-Mobile hasn’t established the “required elements” for certification under Section 1292(b), it said.

Apple had the leverage to “disrupt” Visa's and Mastercard's dominant position in the U.S. market for point-of-sale payment card network services when it was preparing to introduce its iPhone Apple Pay feature in 2014, but instead it colluded with them to maintain their market domination, alleged Mirage Wine & Spirits, a liquor store in O’Fallon, Illinois, in an antitrust class action Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-03942) in U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois in East St. Louis.

Online platforms “facilitate important speech and commerce,” but they also “enable exploitation,” said the opening brief Wednesday (docket 23-2969) of the office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in its appeal of the preliminary injunction that blocks it from enforcing AB-2273, the state’s Age Appropriate Design Code (see 2310240017).

Fidelity National Financial (FNF) disclosed Nov. 21 it was the victim of a preventable ransomware attack that “virtually froze” all the company’s activities, “leaving people buying and selling homes, or paying mortgages, confused and uncertain of what was going to happen to their properties and money,” alleged plaintiff Teneika Tillis’ class action Tuesday (docket 5:23-cv-02537) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Riverside.