Every iPhone sale “guarantees revenue streams well beyond the initial purchase price,” said a class action Thursday (docket 24-cv-434085) in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleging violations of California’s Business and Professions Code. Plaintiff Kyle Whiteside of San Diego bought a new iPhone 13 in July 2021 from an Apple Store in Escondido, California.

The U.S. Supreme Court should uphold the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court decision affirming the district court’s dismissal of the case brought by petitioners Wendy Smith, Michelle Martinez and Kenneth Turner after the court compelled their claims to arbitration, said respondent Keith Spizzirri’s brief Wednesday (docket 22-1218).

Expect the U.S. Supreme Court to support the White House and reject Missouri’s First Amendment challenge claiming administration officials colluded with Big Tech to censor COVID-19 content, legal experts said in interviews last week. Others in the case were less certain, saying the high court provided mixed signals during March 18 oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411) (see 2403180051).

The district court erred as a matter of law when it decided that right of way as used in the Wisconsin statutes encompassed any property subject to an easement for public use, such that Verizon could, without Deer District’s consent, lawfully install small cells and utility poles in the pedestrian mall that Milwaukee leased to the Wisconsin Center District and was subleased to Deer District, said Deer District’s opening brief in its 7th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court appeal.

The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and India-based Times Internet Ltd. share subscribers’ personally identifiable information (PII) to unrelated third parties alongside video content subscribers requested or obtained from their websites, allege two Video Privacy Protection Act class actions filed Thursday.

The FCC violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it amended rules incorporating four new equipment testing standards, and did so without the proper notice and comment protocol, alleged iFixit, Public Resource and Make Community in the opening brief Wednesday (23-1311) of their petition for review at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The opening brief asks that the court remand the rules to the FCC for what the three organizations contend should be a proper rulemaking (see 2311090002).

Apple’s anticompetitive conduct forced Louis Levine and class members to suffer “overcharge damages,” alleged his class action Wednesday (docket 2:24-cv-04284) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark. The class period covers iPhone individuals or entities that bought iPhones directly from Apple, other than for resale, from March 2020 to the present.

William Freemon is a “mass” content pirate who operates “an extensive and commercially scaled network” of illegal streaming services that offers unauthorized access to live channels and VOD streams of copyrighted movies and TV shows, alleged eight studios in an infringement complaint Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00733) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

General Motors, OnStar and LexisNexis Risk Solutions secretly collect consumers’ driver behavior data through vehicle computer systems and sell that data without consumers' full notice, knowledge or consent, alleged a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00524) in U.S. District Court for Middle Pennsylvania in Scranton.

Despite assuring a customer that she wouldn’t be charged for service or hardware after a FiOS installation wasn’t successful, Verizon billed her and then reported her account as delinquent to credit reporting agencies (CRAs) Experian, TransUnion and Equifax, alleged plaintiff Ayesha Gordon in a Fair Credit Reporting Act complaint (docket 1:24-cv-00486) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria.