Hospitals and networks in multistate health services company Tenet Healthcare “disregarded the privacy rights of millions of visitors to and users of their websites,” alleges a Friday class action (2:23-cv-05021) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Los Angeles.

The Lane County, Oregon, motion for summary judgment against AT&T’s complaint to force approval of a 150-foot-tall cell tower (see 2306020025) makes several arguments that all “must fail,” said AT&T’s opposition Thursday (docket 6:22-cv-01635) in U.S. District Court for Oregon in Eugene. AT&T also filed a motion for summary judgment against the county (see 2306230009).

Amazon “reneged on without cause” a “contractual business relationship” it struck with logistics company GSC in late-2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic was “raging” and demand for Amazon’s products and services went “through the roof,” alleged GSC’s breach of contract complaint Friday (docket 1:23-cv-05368) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

Facebook’s conduct was “discriminatory and exacerbated the persisting effects of historic discrimination,” said The Free Press Friday, hailing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ 3-1 reversal of a lower court’s ruling in a civil rights case that Facebook was immune from liability under Section 230 protection of the Communications Act.

Contrary to what the U.S. Bankruptcy Court decided, SES and Intelsat's C-Band Alliance agreement "is certainly not a model of clarity," U.S. District Judge Robert Payne for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled Friday as he reversed the Bankruptcy Court's denial of SES' $421 million claim against Intelsat for the collapse of the CBA. In his 57-page decision Friday (docket 3:22-cv-00668),Payne remanded the case to Bankruptcy Court. SES sought damages from the CBA's collapse as part of Intelsat's now-concluded Chapter 11 bankruptcy (see 2007140029). At oral argument in March, Payne was critical of the CBA agreement (see 2303200062).

Dish’s February data breach was a direct result of its “flawed online system configuration and design” and its “failure to implement and follow basic security procedures,” alleges a Tuesday class action (docket 1:23-cv-01556) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. From Feb. 22 to Feb. 27, unauthorized third-party hackers began accessing and exfiltrating the private information of customers and current and former employees, said the complaint.

AT&T’s June 1 motion for summary judgment against Lane County, Oregon, fails to demonstrate it’s entitled to relief as a matter of law for the county’s denial of its application to build a 150-foot-tall cell tower with accompanying communications electronics (see 2210260009), said the county’s memorandum in opposition to the motion Thursday (docket 6:22-cv-01635) in U.S. District Court for Oregon in Eugene. The county filed a motion for summary judgment against AT&T the same day (see 2306020025).

Google and its AdMob mobile advertising subsidiary “knowingly and intentionally” used apps to collect minors’ personal information without parental consent to target them with “highly lucrative behavioral advertising at the expense of the children’s privacy rights,” said a class action (docket 5:23-cv-03101) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer took the stand Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California on the second day of the evidentiary hearing on the FTC’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision buy (see 2306220070). Under direct examination from FTC lead attorney James Weingarten, Spencer testified he views Sony PlayStation as hostile to Xbox’s survival, and acknowledged participating in internal Microsoft discussions about withholding Activision content from PlayStation if the deal goes through, though he said he couldn’t recall specific conversations.

Eileen Raposa's and Michael Raffo's consolidated class actions asserting claims over connected vehicle services that went dead after AT&T discontinued its 3G wireless services in February 2022 (see 2303030039) “suffer from various flaws that require dismissal,” said a Volkswagen Group of America (VWGoA) memorandum June 16 (docket 2:22-cv-06230) in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark in support of its motion to dismiss. VWGoA simultaneously filed a motion to compel the Raposa and Raffo disputes to arbitration that, if granted, would render the motion to dismiss moot, it said.