Here are Communications Litigation Today's top stories from last week, in case you missed them. Each can be found by searching on its title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.

Spotify customers who bought the company’s Car Thing device are now left with “nothing more than a paperweight,” alleged three customers' class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-04077) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.

Despite representing in a Feb. 14 news release that it was positioned well financially for fiscal 2024, defendants Fastly and its CEO Todd Nightingale misled investors even as the company was “experiencing a significant deceleration in growth,” a securities fraud class action alleged Friday (docket 3:24-cv-03170) in U.S. District Court for Northern California.

Google unlawfully obtained information about individuals who applied for or checked the status of a disability parking placard on the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) website, a privacy class action Friday (docket 5:24-cv-03176) alleged in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Genesys Cloud Services pushed up the shutoff date for its cloud services by nine months, to October, and has refused to provide requested assurances that cloud services would continue to the agreed date of July 2025, alleged a breach-of-contract complaint Friday (docket 1:24-cv-11379) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

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.

WarnerMedia Direct shares personal data of HBO Max users in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), an April 4 complaint alleged (docket 4:24-cv-00043). The complaint was removed Friday from General Sessions Court of Coffee County Tennessee to U.S. District Court for Eastern Tennessee in Winchester.

Warner Bros. “for years” has extensively copied and used The Production Pit’s (TPP) sound recordings for a Harry Potter-themed plush toy in regions where it didn’t have authorization, alleged a copyright infringement suit Wednesday (docket 5:24-cv-01097) in U.S. District Court for Central California.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s May 16 decision in Smith v. Spizzirri, holding that Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act compels district courts to stay, rather than dismiss, cases pending the outcome of arbitration (see 2405160028), “has no effect on the maintenance” of three plaintiffs' appeal against SiriusXM, said the plaintiffs' position statement in a joint status report Thursday (docket 23-4018) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court.

A network of China-based individuals and businesses is selling products bearing counterfeit versions of the Roblox trademark on numerous online marketplaces in Illinois and throughout the U.S., alleged a Lanham Act complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-04246) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.