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Ninth Circuit Provides Clarity on the Scope of Receiverships

McDermott Will & Emery on 9/23/2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed an order denying the defendants’ motion to discharge a receiver who had been appointed to aid in the execution of a judgment for violations of the Copyright Act. WB Music...more

Consumer Law Hinsights – February 2020

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 2/27/2020

Seventh and Eleventh Circuits Scale Back Scope of TCPA in Narrow Reading of ATDS - The Seventh and Eleventh Circuits provided grammar lessons and eliminated the least incorrect options to evaluate what constitutes an...more

Ruling Denying TCPA Class Certification Highlights What’s Wrong with the System

Womble Bond Dickinson on 12/6/2019

One of the biggest problems with the TCPA is how quickly a single call or text message can become the catalyst of a massive, and expensive nationwide class action creating significant exposure to any business caught in its...more

Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending June 21, 2019

Carlton Fields on 7/8/2019

Real Property Update - Mortgagee Liability: because section 701.04(1)(a), Florida Statutes, requires that the holder of a mortgage deliver to the mortgagor a written estoppel letter setting forth the unpaid balance of the...more

REPUBLISHED TCPA Horror Story: 1 Fax+1 Lawsuit = $12.5M Award– Man’s home, business in limbo

Womble Bond Dickinson on 8/13/2018

OCEAN CITY – A local man is fighting to save his beachfront home after a crushing legal award of $12.5 million in damages. He said it’s over sending a single fax to a company in Pope County, Ark. Gene Kalsky was recently...more

TCPA Case Law Review (Vol. 3)

Vedder Price on 7/18/2018

The TCPA continues to generate significant case law nationwide. Since our last published update on June 5, 2018, there have been several significant decisions that all TCPA defense practitioners should be aware of. As always,...more

5 TCPA Class Action Trends to Watch in 2018 – Legislation, Administrative Law & Litigation

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/1/2018

Have the GOP’s Hopes for Enacting the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act Been Dashed? – Passed in March 2017 by the U.S. House of Representatives, the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017, H.R. 985, has...more

Autodialing and Pre-Recorded Messages: the TCPA’s Trap for Unwary Lenders and Debt Collectors

Ruder Ware on 3/2/2017

In February 2015, a federal judge approved a $75 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) class settlement involving Capital One and three debt collectors.[1] The plaintiffs (debtors) alleged that Capital One and...more

Court Of Chancery Rejects Fee Application From Litigation Funder

Morris James LLP on 9/22/2016

This is a decision worth reading because it so well tells an interesting story. But its legal significance may well be that it holds a litigation funding firm is not entitled to an attorney fee award at least when it does not...more

TCPA Connect - August 2016

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 8/16/2016

FCC Issues Report and Order on Budget Act Exemptions - On August 11, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission issued a Report and Order implementing Section 301 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which amended the...more

Health Care Entities Get Clarity from FCC on Telephone Communications

K&L Gates LLP on 8/10/2015

The health care industry is in the midst of rapid change as governments fight rising health care costs, providers look to comply with myriad new regulations, and technology continues to take a more prominent role in the...more

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