( October 9, 2026, 11:29 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge dismissed a town’s putative class action lawsuit against several telecommunications companies for public nuisance, negligence and trespass caused by the companies’ alleged practice of abandoning “toxic lead-sheathed telecommunications cables” due to lack of standing after finding that the plaintiff’s injuries are “speculative” and that it did not bring factual allegations of “contamination.”...