BookTix, a virtual box office for local community performances, conceals processing fees until the final moments of checkout, in violation of New York’s “all-in pricing” mandate, alleged a fraud class action Monday (docket 7:24-cv-03670) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in White Plains.

Sprout Social, a developer of social media management platforms, made materially false and misleading statements and failed to disclose “material adverse facts” from Nov. 2 to May 2, leading to “artificially inflated” stock prices, alleged a securities fraud class action (docket 1:24-cv-03867) Monday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois.

EchoStar transferred billions of dollars’ worth of assets from Dish Network and its DBS subsidiary “out of reach of existing creditors, in exchange for nothing” in a “brazen series of related transactions” designed to protect controlling shareholder and Dish CEO Charlie Ergen, alleged a fraud complaint (docket 1:24-cv-03646) Monday by U.S. Bank Trust Co., National Association, in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Google is “self-preferencing” its YouTube videos in Google search results over links to searched-for videos on other online video platforms, alleged Rumble Canada's antitrust complaint Monday (docket 5:24-cv-02880) against Google and parent Alphabet in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. The plaintiff claims damages of over $1 billion, “before trebling.”

Marcelino Padilla and Danny Contreras circumvented Dish Network and Sling TV’s security measures and retransmitted their copyrighted TV programming without authorization, alleged a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint Friday (docket 8:24-cv-01028) in U.S. District Court for Central California.

John Lattimore seeks to hold Dell accountable for the injuries it inflicted on him and millions of similarly situated persons due to its “impermissibly inadequate data security,” alleged his class action Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00499) in U.S. District Court for Western Texas in Austin.

Nineteen-year-old Michael Antonetti spends about 12 hours a day playing seven Call of Duty games, plus Fortnite, Minecraft and others, said his videogame addiction complaint Friday (docket 1:24-cv-02019) against more than a dozen videogame hardware and software companies in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta.

Centennial Bank began notifying victims of a data breach April 19, “a whole year” after the breach occurred, alleged a negligence class action Friday (docket 4:24-cv-00415) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Arkansas.

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.

U.S. District Judge Michael Watson for Southern Ohio in Columbus reserved ruling in part and denied in part Vivek Ramaswamy’s March 21 and April 1 motions to dismiss Thomas Grant’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint, said the judge’s signed opinion and order Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00281).