The plaintiffs who oppose SoftBank’s motion to dismiss their class action for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue rely on “a boundless and unprecedented theory of personal jurisdiction” to assert their opposition, said SoftBank’s reply memorandum Friday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. Seven consumers, all AT&T or Verizon customers, brought the lawsuit in June to vacate T-Mobile’s 2020 Sprint buy, alleging the transaction stifled competition, causing their own wireless rates to skyrocket (see 2210110003).

California Public Utilities Commission opposition to T-Mobile’s challenge of USF contribution changes “is as legally indefensible as it is inequitable,” the carrier said Thursday at the U.S. District Court of Northern California. T-Mobile and subsidiaries seek a preliminary injunction to stop the CPUC’s October decision to switch to connections-based contribution from taking effect April 1 (see 2302280037 and 2302020058). T-Mobile disagreed with CPUC opposition that it lacks standing and failed to show the new surcharge is inconsistent with federal law.

SimpliSafe relies on “consumer confusion” in the illegal automatic renewal scheme used for its security system’s subscription monitoring service, alleged a Wednesday class action (docket 2:23-cv-433) in U.S. District Court for Eastern California in Sacramento.

DOJ moved Thursday to strike the March 7 supplemental fact memorandum by the Louisiana and Missouri attorneys general in support of their motion for a preliminary injunction (PI) to block what they allege is the Biden administration’s collusion with Big Tech to censor right-leaning social media content in violation of the First Amendment (see 2303080002).

Safe and healthy social media use by youth “lies in stark contrast with the deliberate design of algorithms” that flood kids with “divisive and harmful” content, alleged a Thursday class action (docket 4:23-cv-01061) brought by the Broward County, Florida, School Board against Facebook, TikTok, Google and Snap in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

Sage Telecom’s allegations that Halsted Financial Service violated the Texas Business & Commercial Code are speculative and insufficient to state a claim, said the defendant’s Wednesday motion to dismiss (see 2303020063) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas (docket 3:23-cv-00463).

A motion to compel further discovery in a fake ringtones case brought by Craigville Telephone and Consolidated Telephone should be denied because further discovery sought “is not relevant” and “not proportionate to the needs of the case,” said defendant T-Mobile’s Wednesday memorandum of law (1:19-cv-7190) in U.S. District Court for Northern in Illinois in Chicago opposing plaintiffs’ second motion to compel production of certain documents.

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero for Southern New York granted summary judgment against defendants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman for their roles in initiating a threatening and intimidating robocall designed to suppress Black citizens' mail-in votes in the run-up to the 2020 election, said the 111-page order he signed Wednesday (docket 1:20-cv-08668).

Lumen executives misrepresented to investors and the public the company’s rate of investment and progress in expanding fiber services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and residential markets, alleged a March 3 class action (docket 3:23-cv-00286) filed in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.

A new tagalong class action seeks to hold T-Mobile accountable for the massive data breach it disclosed in a Jan. 19 SEC filing (see 2301230046). But the complaint, filed Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-00427) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego, is unique among the others for the voluminous number of plaintiffs it names -- 46. We believe it to be the 16th class action filed since T-Mobile disclosed that bad actors accessed the personally identifiable information (PII) of 37 million current prepaid and postpaid account holders (see 2303080003).