Adobe deceived consumers by hiding early termination fees for its Photoshop and Acrobat subscriptions, among others, and by not making it easy for them to cancel, alleged an FTC complaint Monday (docket 5:24-cv-03630) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.

Matthew Brown falsely claimed to have $182 million in his eponymous company’s bank account when he offered to invest $200 million in Virgin Orbit, though the account really had less than one dollar, alleged an SEC Securities Exchange Act lawsuit (docket 4:24-cv-00558) Monday in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Fort Worth.

A telemarketing fraud suit filed May 23, 2023, by 48 states and the District of Columbia against VoIP service provider Avid Telecom for allegedly facilitating illegal robocall traffic on its network (see 2305230065), “does not contain a scintilla of evidence” that Avid ever initiated "even a single illegal robocall,” said the defendant's answer (docket 4:23-cv-00233) to the complaint Friday in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Tucson. Nor does the complaint have evidence that Avid knew “that any of the calls that it received from an originating aggregator or carrier was an illegal robocall," it said.

Less than a month after U.S. District Judge Denise Casper for Massachusetts in Boston dismissed Norma Egan's privacy lawsuit vs. X-Mode Social over geolocation tracking, the plaintiff returned to the courtroom, this time in U.S. District Court for Virginia. Egan is still claiming unjust enrichment and violation of the Massachusetts Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices Act.

Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.

MaxLinear falsely assured investors it would complete its $3.8 billion Silicon Motion buy, even after it “had already decided to abandon the deal,” alleged a shareholder complaint Thursday (docket 3:24-cv-01033) against the RF semiconductor maker and two executives in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.

Online education platform company 2U and three executives made materially false and misleading statements and failed to disclose material adverse facts about business operations from February 2022 to February 2024, alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action (docket 8:24-cv-01723) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt.

Donald Friend sued Google in U.S. District Court for Northern California, seeking to halt its “complex and misleading system and practices” involving businesses advertised on Google Maps, said his Thursday complaint (docket 5:24-cv-03571) in the San Jose court.

OpenAI seeks the consolidation of the separate infringement lawsuits brought by the New York Times (see 2312270044) and eight newspapers (see 2404300034) because the two complaints are "functionally identical," said OpenAI’s memorandum of law Thursday (dockets 1:23-cv-11195 and 1:24-cv-03285) in support of its motion.

Amazon “abuses its market dominance to shield itself from competition, reduce market activity, and extract supracompetitive fees,” alleged an antitrust class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00851) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.