This is the inaugural issue of Communications Litigation Today, the newest information service from the publisher of Communications Daily. It has been conceptualized in close consultation with Comm Daily subscribers, who identified a need for timely coverage of federal and state legal developments affecting telecom, tech and media companies, with a focus on keeping industry professionals informed about significant judicial proceedings.

Dish Network’s “baseless” demand to “claw back” license fees it paid the Pac-12 Network to carry a full slate of games for the 2018 and 2019 college football seasons to compensate for the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season runs “contrary to the plain language” of the parties’ license agreement, alleged the network in a breach of contract complaint Thursday (docket 1:22-cv-02620) in U.S. District Court in Denver.

Marriott International filed a motion Friday to compel discovery from Dynasty Marketing Group, one of several defendants in its novel Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, alleging infringement of Marriott trademarks by robocalling Marriott impersonators. Marriott seeks "full and complete answers," plus the production of documents, "responsive" to its discovery requests, said a memorandum in support of its motion (docket 1:21-cv-00610).