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Hinch Newman LLP

FTC Implements New TSR B2B Protections and Proposes Rule on Tech Support Scams

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On March 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced a final rule extending telemarketing fraud protections to businesses and updating the rule’s recordkeeping requirements as a result of developments in technology and...more

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Lead Generation: An Excerpt from the Advertising Law Tool Kit

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In the evolving world of lead generation and performance-based customer acquisition, the quest for profits can lead to big legal risks, some of them too large for advertisers that buy leads through third parties. Advertisers...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Stay ADvised: 2024, Issue 3

In its ongoing action focused on robocalls, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking steps against two companies that make robocalls possible. It recently announced separate settlements against companies accused of...more

Burr & Forman

The Eastern District of New York Holds that Spending a “Sizeable Minority of Time” at Your Mother’s House Does not Make You a...

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Bank v. ICOT Holdings, LLC, 18-cv-02554 (AMD) (PK), 2024 WL 278460 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 25, 2024) - Pro se Plaintiff, an attorney, filed a class action lawsuit alleging that two calls he answered at his mother’s house...more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — Two Courts Agree With Defendant’s Challenges to Imprecise TCPA Class...

Although most courts will punt on a motion to strike a class definition at the pleading stage, two recent rulings reveal that such motions can succeed. In Sowders v. Scratch Financial, Inc., No. 23-0056, 2023 WL...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New FCC rule on TCPA consent for advertising and telemarketing calls and texts will significantly impact callers who obtain...

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By a vote of 4-1, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) adopted a new rule amending its regulations implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to close what it refers to as the “lead generator loophole.”  ...more

BakerHostetler

AD-ttorneys@law - August 2022

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Will Coppertone Get Burned for Its Labels? Consumer class action alleges sunscreens are all the same - It’s Not Much, But It’s Something - Through the years, Coppertone - the sun protection products brand owned...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Florida Expands Telemarketing Laws

Florida recently amended its existing telemarketing laws, the Florida Do Not Call Act and the Florida Telemarketing Act. SB 1120, which went into effect July 1, 2021, imposes significant additional restrictions (and...more

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A Court in NY Just Reined in the Definition of “Advertisements” Under the TCPA

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At the time this is published, all the rage in the TCPA realm right now is talking about the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Facebook. And it was clearly a critical and much needed decision....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

What Constitutes an Advertisement Under the TCPA? Two Courts Draw the Line In Recent Opinions

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Under the TCPA, the difference between “informational” messages and “advertisements,” or “solicitations,” can be a subtle one, and, on many occasions, a business’s TCPA liability – and quite possibly its financial stability –...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Regulators Take Action Against Robocalls

Together with state, federal and local agencies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a crackdown on illegal robocalls. “Operation Call it Quits” included four new FTC cases and three new settlements that involved...more

Carlton Fields

Real Property & Financial Services Update: Week Ending May 31, 2019

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Real Property Update - Public Official Standing Doctrine: county school district that benefited from ad valorem taxes charged by county could not challenge constitutionality of statutory tax exemption claimed by homeowners...more

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Government Shutdown Leaves Consumers Vulnerable

The U.S. is undergoing the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history, and it is taking a toll on the consumer’s economic welfare in more ways than one. Every day, Americans fall victim to harassing telemarketing...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

What to Do When the Government Shutdown Leaves Your Company Without Access to the National DNC Registry

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On December 22, 2018, due to the lapse in government appropriations, a partial federal government shutdown went into effect. With no end in sight, this partial shutdown has had important effects on all industry sectors. For...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

“I’m Unavailable to Take Your Advertisement Right Now”: FCC Regulation of Direct-To-Voicemail Marketing

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The days of lamenting the dinnertime telemarketing call seem to have faded, but as communication technology ? particularly cell phone and smartphone usage ? has become ubiquitous, advertisers have found new avenues to...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC Issues National Do Not Call Data Book for Companies

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued the National Do Not Call Registry (the Registry) Data Book (Data Book) for Fiscal Year 2016 last week. The Registry is used by consumers to choose not to receive telemarketing calls....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC files complaint against solar panel company for do-not-call violations

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against Francisco J. Salvat and his companies KFJ Marketing, LLC, Sunlight Solar Leads, LLC, and Go Green Education (collectively, Defendants) for violations of the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - August 2015 #2

FDA Wants to Pour Some Sugar on the Nutrition Label - Adding to the proposed changes to the Nutrition Facts label—the first tweaks in 20 years—the Food and Drug Administration has suggested yet another: adding the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Companies at New Risk from Tighter FCC Robocall Regulations

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On June 18, 2015, the FCC adopted stronger consumer protections against robocalls and spam texts. The new regulations are a response to hundreds of thousands of consumer complaints about robocalls. The new rules under the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Argentina Adopts New Data Protection Regulations for the Use of Do Not Call Registry and CCTV

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The Argentinian Data Protection Authority (DPA) beefs up penalties to fight robocalls and unconsented-to video surveillance by enacting Do Not Call and CCTV regulations....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law -- Jan 16, 2014

FTC Makes New Year’s Resolution to Target Deceptive Weight-Loss Claims - While many Americans made New Year’s resolutions to lose weight or get in better shape, the Federal Trade Commission resolved to eliminate...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law -- Jul 11, 2013

FTC to Search Engines: Make Ads Distinct - Eleven years after last issuing guidance to search engines about displaying paid search results, the Federal Trade Commission sent letters to dozens of companies, including...more

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