In the 20 years since John Mansour, founder of National Telecommunications of Florida (NTF), put his money under the management of his brothers, their lawyer and their bankers, the plaintiff’s assets “were used to facilitate money laundering and other unauthorized transactions in the billions of dollars,” alleged a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) complaint Friday (docket 4:24-cv-00459) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Sherman.

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Hip-hop group Run-DMC and its brand infringed the rights of photographer Ferrin Green, also known as Shoebio, and his creative agency, Know Your Dope (KYD), when it exploited eight photographs Shoebio created during an Aug. 11, 2023, performance at Yankee Stadium in New York, alleged a copyright infringement lawsuit (docket 1:24-cv-03900) Monday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.

Plaintiffs Ryan Unruh and Christopher Isbell oppose the consolidation of all related actions to the Northern District of Texas and support centralization in the Northern District of Georgia in In Re: AT&T Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, said their supplemental response (docket 3114) to their interested party response in support of transfer and centralization Monday before the U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

Life Corp., a defendant in the League of Women Voters’ lawsuit to hold Life and other allegedly bad actors liable for robocalls placed to Democratic voters in the runup to the New Hampshire primary (see 2403150034), opposes the league’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block the defendants from repeating their crimes (see 2404290016), said Life’s objection Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00073) in U.S. District Court for New Hampshire in Concord.

Thomas Gebka seeks an order compelling State Farm to produce in class discovery, without redactions, all records and notes for all calls that State Farm or any State Farm agency made from Oct. 10, 2018, to the present, said the plaintiff’s motion to compel Monday (docket 1:22-cv-05546) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Marriott is using “hundreds” of videos containing unlicensed music from Sony-owned labels, according to Sony's copyright infringement suit. It was filed Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00598) in U.S. District Court for Delaware in Wilmington.

The First Amendment “protects a person’s right to view, approach, listen to, and record law enforcement, provided that there is no interference with police activity,” said plaintiff-appellant Donald Nicodemus’ reply brief Monday (docket 24-1099) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in opposition to Indiana’s “buffer law.”

The Shore Firm is seeking $6 million in attorneys’ fees it's allegedly owed for “successful representation” of VideoShare in a patent infringement lawsuit (6:19-cv-00663) against Google. The plaintiff received a $25.9 million judgment in the suit, rising to more than $31 million including prejudgment interest since the 2021 ruling, its April 30 petition said (docket 3:24-cv-01190) in Texas County Court in Dallas. The case was removed Friday to U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

The U.S. District Court for New Hampshire in Concord should reject the League of Women Voters’ motion for a preliminary injunction to block defendants Steve Kramer, broadband provider Lingo Telecom and robocall broadcaster Life Corp. from again sending illegal robocalls to voters in New Hampsire (see 2404290016), said Lingo’s opposition memorandum Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00073).