Inaccurate and misleading information provided by Verizon Wireless led to erroneous debt collection actions, alleged a complaint (docket 7:22-cv-10938) filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in White Plains against Equifax, TransUnion and Verizon for violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
Dynasty Marketing Group, a defendant in a robocalling trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Marriott International (see 2210070013), was sued by an individual in a class action in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Gainesville Thursday for violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Georgia’s No-Call List statute.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) announced Wednesday a task force formed to provide better coordination among law enforcement to identify, disrupt and prosecute organized criminal rings that steal goods from retailers and resell them through online marketplaces.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert for Northern Illinois in Chicago granted in a Friday docket entry plaintiffs Craigville Telephone and Consolidated Telephone’s Thursday partial consent motion (docket 1:19-cv-07190) to extend the deadline to amend pleadings and join parties in their class action against T-Mobile over false ring tones. T-Mobile had argued that plaintiffs’ interrogatories “did not need to be made” and should be denied (see 2212230004).
The Dec. 21 class action alleging T-Mobile failed to protect customers' information in a SIM card swap fraud (see 2211160016) was assigned to U.S. District Judge Lauren King for Western Washington in Seattle, whose Dec. 22 summons gave the defendant 21 days to answer the complaint (docket 2:22-cv-1805).
Microsoft, positioning itself in third place among console gaming companies behind Nintendo and Sony and with “next to no presence” in mobile gaming, is trying to become “more competitive” in the expanding mobile gaming space, it said Thursday.
A request to supplement a renewed motion to compel with related interrogatories “did not need to be made” and should be denied, said defendants T-Mobile and Inteliquent in a Dec. 21 response (docket 1:19-cv-07190) to Craigville Telephone and Consolidated Telephone’s Dec. 12 motion filed in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco signed an order Wednesday appointing interim lead counsel for the body of consolidated class actions (docket 22-cv-03580) brought against Meta for alleged privacy abuses via the Pixel tracking tool involving millions of Facebook users’ protected health information.
Defendants SellLocked, Guru Holdings and owner Jakob Zahara on Tuesday filed a motion to dismiss (docket 2:22-cv-1950) the 12 causes of action in Xfinity Mobile’s handset trafficking complaint against them for damages and injunctive relief in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in Phoenix.
Downrite Engineering employees damaged Crown Castle underground cable on three occasions while excavating on land in and around Miami, without Crown Castle’s knowledge or consent, alleged Crown Castle in a complaint Monday (docket 163330712) in the 11th Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Crown Castle seeks damages nearing $63,000, plus pre- and post-judgment interest and further relief.