The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana should dismiss the Biden administration’s attempts to throw out a lawsuit from Republican state attorneys general claiming federal officials colluded with Big Tech to censor social media information, AGs from Missouri and Louisiana argued in a filing Friday (see 2212080048) and 2211220054) (docket 3:22-cv-01213).

Crown Castle needs to view documents filed under seal in its legal fight in the district court to force Pasadena, Texas, to approve the installation of small-cell nodes in the city’s rights of way, said its motion Wednesday (docket 22-20454) at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Pasadena is appealing the district court’s decision granting summary judgment in Crown Castle’s favor, and Crown Castle said it needs the documents to prepare its responding brief.

Educational Credit Management Corp. (ECMC), a student loan servicer, recorded its phone conversations with plaintiff Cynthia Lepur without her consent, in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), alleged her class action Nov. 15 in San Diego County Superior Court. ECMC removed the complaint Wednesday (docket 3:23-cv-00014) to U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego

Anker’s claims that its eufy security products keep customers’ data “safe within your home” are “false and misleading,” alleged a Dec. 23 breach of contract class action (docket 2:22-cv-1816) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. .

The Supreme Court should dismiss a case involving Patent Act Section 112 to “protect innovation” in fields like telecom, software, computing and electronics, tech groups argued this week in Amgen v. Sanofi (21-757).

The U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois in East St. Louis should reject arguments by Monroe County, Illinois, that AT&T waited too long to challenge the timeliness of the municipality’s denial of its cell tower application (see 2212200022), said the carrier’s reply brief Tuesday (docket 3:20-cv-01327).

Six lawyers representing plaintiffs in multiple class actions arising from last summer's Samsung data breach entered notices of presentation by Tuesday's deadline, indicating they will appear at the Jan. 26 oral argument before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s hearing on various motions to consolidate the cases and transfer them to a single judge.

Google wants relief from a costly data preservation burden in the Chrome privacy case in which it won summary judgment. It asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen for Northern California in San Jose for an order absolving the company from its data or cost obligations, now that the plaintiffs in the case are appealing the summary judgment order to the 9th Circuit, said a supplemental submission Tuesday (docket 4:20-cv-05146).

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A Gray Television petition asking the courts to set aside the FCC’s $518,000 forfeiture order against the company (see 2211010077) suggests it's targeting agency policy rather than simply seeking to overturn the fine, attorneys told us. “The Commission’s Order is erroneous and improper for several reasons,” said Gray’s petition for review in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (docket 22-14274) last week.