Amazon “abuses its market dominance to shield itself from competition, reduce market activity, and extract supracompetitive fees,” alleged an antitrust class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00851) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.

Summit Health combines patients’ searches for medical information with their protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) and sells it to advertisers without their permission, alleged a privacy class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-06972) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. The suit also names Meta, Google, PubMatic, Microsoft and Magnite.

DirecTV is attempting to “misappropriate” the security system supporting its pay-TV services, alleged system developer Synamedia Wednesday in a trade secrets suit (docket 2:24-cv-04967) in U.S. District Court for Central California.

Microsoft and co-defendant OpenAI filed separate motions Tuesday to dismiss four of the eight counts in an April 30 complaint alleging that the two companies are “purloining” millions of copyrighted newspaper articles without permission and without payment to “fuel the commercialization” of their generative AI products (see 2404300034). Eight newspapers filed that suit.

Snap’s platform is “designed in unsafe ways,” alleged a survival action complaint (docket 4:24-cv-03521) in U.S. District Court for South Carolina in Columbia. The mother of a 13-year-old Sumter, South Carolina, boy who died by suicide brought the complaint.

Education in 2024 “bears very little resemblance to education in previous decades,” and advances in technology have “transformed the pattern of classwork and homework,” said the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition in a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court amicus brief Tuesday (docket 23-60641). The brief backs the FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040).

Nearly two dozen current and former Lumen Technologies executives and board members breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders and the company by covering up Lumen's ownership of toxic lead cables, alleged a shareholder derivative complaint Tuesday (docket 3:24-cv-00798) in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana.

Despite Dell's assurances that a data breach of its systems doesn’t pose “significant risk” to those affected because of “limited information impacted,” the breach appears to have been “substantially broader,” alleged a negligence class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00647) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas.

The FCC’s Oct. 25 declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses (see 2312200040) “is both appropriate and lawful,” the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and eight other educational groups said in a 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court amicus brief Monday (docket 23-60641) in support of the commission's ruling.

Frontier customers are at a “significant risk of identity theft” and other financial harm as a result of an April 13 data breach of the telecom company’s computer systems, alleged a negligence class action Monday (docket 3:24-cv-01418) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.