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.

Netgear breached its contractual obligation as a member of the Wi-Fi Alliance to grant licenses to its patented A dual band spectrum allocation system technology (U.S. Patent No. 7,936,714) on reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) terms when it pursued an International Trade Commission exclusion order against TP-Link routers, alleged TP-Link's breach of contract complaint Monday (docket 5:24-cv-03478) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

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.

IRobot’s representations to investors about the probability of regulatory approval of its purchase by Amazon and the “adequacy” of the company’s internal controls “were far from reality,” alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action Saturday (docket 1:24-cv-11498) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.

Dish Network and Sling TV filed a pair of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints Friday, alleging violations of the anti-trafficking provision of the law, plus the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).

Indiana Wesleyan University lent $1.7 million to Ole Holdings to launch an online education project that would expand IWU’s online offerings into multiple universities in Ethiopia using Ole’s online education platform. However, the project never launched, a fraud suit (docket 1:24-cv-00239) alleged Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern Indiana in Fort Wayne.

The FCC urged the 6th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court Friday to move the challenge to the FCC’s net neutrality order to the D.C. Circuit (docket 24-3450). The FCC also issued an order declining to stay the rules, which take effect July 22, pending judicial review.

Verizon would have the 7th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court “create new law, significantly expanding the reach" of the Telecommunications Act to install small cells on privately leased property outside Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum in time for the July 15-18 Republican National Convention, said Milwaukee’s Deer District, an intervenor-defendant in Verizon’s small-cells dispute with the city, in a reply brief Friday (docket 24-1212).

The Philadelphia Inquirer knew of a May 2023 data breach of its computer network affecting the personally identifiable information (PII) of current and former employees and subscribers, but it waited nearly a year to inform victims of the cyberattack, a May 6 negligence class action alleged (docket 2:24-cv-02499). It was removed Friday from the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania. The suit also names the Inquirer’s owner, the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.

Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.