In Remanding DISH Telemarketing Damage Award, Appeals Court Decides Collateral Issue That Could Have Far-Reaching Operational Implications - On March 26, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued its...more
FCC Asks "Gateway Service Providers" to Help Traceback Efforts of Foreign-Originating Calls, While FTC Warns VoIP Providers Against Facilitating Violations -
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade...more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) marked another step in its effort to curtail illegal robocalls. During its recent Open Meeting, the FCC approved Notices of Inquiry (NOIs) into Call Authentication methods and into...more
Telemarketers and others who may have been wondering how the Federal Communications Commission’s recent and – to industry participants – concerning Declaratory Ruling and Order on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more
8/21/2015
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In potentially its most significant action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) since the 2003 overhaul of its rules ushering in the National Do-Not-Call Registry and other updates, the Federal Communications...more
7/15/2015
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Unsolicited Phone Calls
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 10 state Attorneys General announced the filing of a complaint and proposed stipulations against Caribbean Cruise Line (CCL) and several other companies that, respectively, alleged and...more
In a somewhat significant departure from prior law, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law a bill to immediately amend the state’s telemarketing sales call rules to expand the ability of companies to make...more
A majority of the nation’s state and territorial Attorneys General have collectively urged the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission to revisit rules and policies in ways that would help law...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published in the Federal Register a Request for Comments on all aspects of its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) as part of a routine review of the effectiveness, costs and benefits of its...more
With its latest settlement, the Federal Trade Commission shows that its prior targeting of prerecorded voice dialing platforms, as opposed to those who use them to place “robocalls,” was no one-off initiative, and that it has...more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued two public notices requesting comment on petitions that seek to mitigate some of the impact from recent changes to the new Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) rules...more
Companies that place prerecorded telemarketing calls, or that telemarket to cell phones via text-message or automatic telephone dialing systems, should be well on their way toward compliance with new FCC rules that take...more