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The Power and Peril of IP Addresses: The Supreme Court of Canada Weighs in on the Changing Landscape of Online Privacy

The Supreme Court of Canada recently delivered a landmark decision on the privacy rights of Internet users. In R v Bykovets, police investigating an alleged online fraud requested and obtained a suspect’s Internet Protocol...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Seventh Circuit Moves Vicarious Liability Claims Forward

Reversing dismissal, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit found that a plaintiff had sufficiently pled allegations of vicarious liability to keep his Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) suit alive....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Second Circuit Reverses Ruling in FDCPA Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently held that a debt collector’s settlement offer must indicate whether interest and fees are continuing to accrue on the outstanding debt, or alternatively, whether...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Financial Services Industry Braces for Impact of Eleventh Circuit's Hunstein Decision

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In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit may have upended the long-standing and rather routine business practice of financial services companies using third-party vendors to manage,...more

Harris Beach PLLC

"Sellers" Beware: Online Marketplaces Could See Increased Liability for Allegedly Defective Products

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently issued a decision that could change the liability landscape for online marketplaces such as Amazon....more

Genova Burns LLC

Appellate Division Rules Independent Contractor Agreements Signed by Driver’s Corporation Not Bullet Proof Against Class Action...

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On October 29, 2018 a N.J. Appellate Division panel reversed a dismissal of class action overtime pay claims brought against a freight-forwarding company that convinced the lower court that the company’s drivers and...more

Brooks Pierce

First Circuit Opens New World of Potential Liability for Video Producers

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You may be too young for this to have been a big thing to you, but almost 30 years ago, D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, and Washington, D.C. went into a tizzy. Coming as it did just a year...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

User of Free App May Be “Consumer” under the Video Privacy Protection Act

This past week, the First Circuit issued a notable opinion concerning the contours of liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) – a decision that stirs up further uncertainty as to where to draw the line...more

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