A $30 million Kansas cap on state USF is constitutional, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled last week. The court affirmed a decision by the state’s Shawnee District Court in Blue Valley Tele-Communications v. Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC).

Southern Theatres, a movie theater chain with three in North Carolina, is sharing customers’ private video viewing information without obtaining their consent, alleged a Wednesday Video Privacy Protection Act class action in U.S. District Court for Middle North Carolina (docket 1:23-cv-00346).

More than a year after the court "set in motion an action plan" to permit plaintiffs Craigville Telephone and Consolidated Telephone to contact T-Mobile subscribers who experienced fake ring tones, the plaintiffs “still have had no meaningful contact” with any of them, said the plaintiffs in a joint motion Wednesday (docket 1:19-cv-07190) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago to resolve discovery disputes involving those consumer contacts.

Plaintiff Anne Lightoller’s “cut-and-paste job belies the lack of merit to her claims,” said JetBlue’s Tuesday motion to dismiss (docket 3:23-cv-00361) a privacy case in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.

Attorneys general in New York and more than 45 states waited too long to bring an antitrust lawsuit against Meta for alleged anticompetitive conduct in its buys of Instagram and WhatsApp, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit ruled Thursday, affirming a district court decision, in docket 21-7078.

U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett for Maryland in Baltimore signed a memorandum opinion Tuesday (docket 1:22-cv-02456) granting defendant Global Tower’s Jan. 31 motion to dismiss with prejudice property owner Olcan III’s claims for negligent misrepresentation, negligence and public nuisance emanating from a dispute over a rooftop cell tower.

TocMail’s failure to back up with “actual evidence” its allegation that Microsoft misled the public into believing its Safe Links product offered protection from IP evasion cost TocMail billions in lost profits from its own IP evasion protection product (see 2212150030), said the 11th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s opinion Tuesday (docket 22-10223).

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana in Monroe granted Children’s Health Defense's (CHD) unopposed motion Tuesday (docket 3:22-cv-01213) for leave to file an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs Missouri and Louisiana’s motion for a preliminary injunction in a freedom of speech lawsuit against President Joe Biden and some 60 individuals and government agencies.

CTIA hailed a decision by Judge Alfred Irving of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, who struck expert witnesses from a long-standing RF lawsuit filed against Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm and other companies. Irving handed down an 83-page decision Tuesday that considered each of the experts and why he was dismissing their testimony.

U.S. District Court Judge Dale Fischer for Central California granted plaintiff “John Doe’s” motion to remand a privacy case against the Cedars-Sinai health system to California Superior Court in Los Angeles, said her Monday order (docket 2:23-cv-00870). Cedars-Sinai removed the case to district court in February.