Digital media company Meet Kevin sued CNN parent Warner Bros. Discovery for refusing to offer social media companies broadcast licenses for the CNN presidential debate that was set for Thursday between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, said an antitrust complaint Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-05441) in U.S. District Court for Central California.

The statute authorizing the federal TikTok ban -- the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act -- is unconstitutional, and should be blocked, said the Electronic Freedom Foundation, TechFreedom and five other nonprofits in an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 24-1113) in the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit.

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), which calls itself “the oldest nonprofit newsroom in the country,” alleges that Microsoft and OpenAI copied CIR’s “valuable content” to train their AI models, and did so “without CIR’s permission or authorization, and without any compensation to CIR,” said its complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-04872) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.

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BorrowMoney.com’s reported revenue for three quarters in FY 2019 was a “figment” of sole officer and majority shareholder Aldo Piscitello’s “imagination and invention,” alleged the SEC's lawsuit Wednesday (docket 0:24-cv-61118) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida.

To fulfill its “broad mandate” under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the FCC in the digital discrimination order on review “adopted rules that prohibit practices with unjustified discriminatory effects on access to broadband service,” plus intentional discrimination, the commission’s brief said Tuesday (docket 24-1179) in the 8th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court.

Adult toys and products website owner Barnaby allows Microsoft to “intercept, read, and utilize for commercial gain consumers’ private information about their sexual practices and preferences" gleaned from their activity on its websites, alleged a privacy class action (docket 3:24-cv-03789) vs. the two companies Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California.

Real estate marketplace company Zillow Group disclosed the personally identifiable information (PII) and viewing history of visitors to its website, without their valid consent, alleged a Video Privacy Protection Act class action Tuesday (docket 3:24-cv-01095) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court was "wrong" when it affirmed a district court’s “sweeping” preliminary injunction that barred dozens of White House officials and four federal agencies from coercing social media platforms to moderate their content, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a 6-3 decision Wednesday in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411).

The FCC, intervenors and amici who benefit from E-rate funding contend that authorizing Wi-Fi on school buses will advance students’ education, but there’s “powerful and growing evidence to doubt that claim,” petitioners Maurine and Matthew Molak said in their 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court reply brief Monday (docket 23-60641).