YouTuber Donald Nicodemus’ appeal to reverse the district court’s denial of his motion for an injunction to block Indiana’s “buffer law,” HB-1186, implicates the law’s “First Amendment abridgments,” said the Radio Television Digital News Association, the National Press Photographers Association and four other news media organizations in an amicus brief (docket 24-1009) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Nicodemus.

The ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates associations seek leave to intervene in support of the four petitions for review consolidated in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that challenge the FCC’s Dec. 26 quadrennial review order for allegedly violating Section 202(h) of the Telecommunications Act (see 2403050075), said their unopposed joint motion Friday.

Eight plaintiffs-appellants chose to buy Apple computers, but they didn’t know about and didn’t choose to buy the iCloud software that was automatically installed on their computers when they created their Apple IDs, said their opening brief, dated Wednesday and docketed Thursday (docket 24-715) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court. Their appeal seeks to reverse the district court’s dismissal of their fraud complaint against Apple.

U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel for Southern New York in Manhattan granted the motion of Nexstar Media Group and two sidecar companies, Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting, to dismiss DirecTV’s antitrust complaint for lack of standing, said the judge’s signed opinion and order Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-02221).

Two negligence class actions were filed in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania Wednesday involving the Citrix Systems October data breach that compromised the personally identifiable information (PII) of over 35 million Comcast Xfinity customers. One names Citrix only; the second names Citrix and Comcast.

The district court “correctly reviewed” and upheld AB-587, California’s social media disclosure law, under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1985 decision in Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, said an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 24-271) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from the Democratic attorneys general of 17 states and the District of Columbia.

Fast food chain Wingstop and voice AI technology platform ConverseNow capture biometric identifiers, including unique voiceprints of customers, without informing them in writing or obtaining their written consent, as required by Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-02302) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Illinois in Chicago.

“Consumers shouldn’t have to pay higher prices because companies break the law,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland told a news conference Thursday announcing the bipartisan antitrust suit (docket 2:24-cv-04055) against Apple brought by DOJ and the AGs of 15 states and the District of Columbia. DOJ alleges in USA v. Apple that the tech giant has consolidated its monopoly power “not by making its own products better but by making other products worse.”

Greensboro College waited about six months to notify some 52,000 victims of an August data breach, alleged a negligence class action Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00243) in U.S. District Court for Middle North Carolina in Greensboro.

Despite contractual and other legal obligations, an ex-Apple software engineer “repeatedly flouted his promise to keep Apple’s information confidential,” alleged Apple's breach of contract complaint Monday (docket 24-cv-433319) in Santa Clara County Superior Court.