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States Continue to Step in to Safeguard Genetic Information

Utah’s governor recently signed into law SB 227, creating the Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA). The law, which is anticipated to go into effect in May, is aimed at protecting genetic data collected from...more

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New York’s Broad Automatic Renewal Law (and the Accompanying Compliance Issues) Coming in February 2021

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New York has enacted a new law, effective February 9, 2021, regulating automatic renewal and some “free trial” type agreements. While some organizations may have already taken steps to be in compliance with industry...more

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Pre-Suit Notice Requirements in Consumer Litigation in West Virginia - Make Sure You Know which Requirement Applies

The devil’s in the details. And, the details will become more complicated if a new proposed law in West Virginia is enacted. The West Virginia Legislature is considering a bill that would amend the West Virginia Consumer...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

What Bank Litigators Want Banks to Know About the State of Consumer Protection Litigation in W.Va.

For decades, consumer protection has led to copious amounts of litigation in West Virginia. In the past several years, the types of lawsuits filed under the debt collection provisions of the West Virginia Consumer Credit and...more

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California Enacts Additional Limits on Collecting Time Barred Debts

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Beginning in 2019, all California “debt collectors”—including creditors collecting their own debts regularly and in the ordinary course of business—will be required to provide notice to debtors when collecting on debts that...more

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California Passes Strictest Data Privacy Law in the Nation—Even Businesses Outside of California Could be Affected

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California has now enacted the strictest data privacy law in the nation. The Consumer Right to Privacy Act of 2018 ("California Privacy Act"), which is set to go into effect on January 1, 2020, seeks to give consumers more...more

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California Adopts Sweeping Consumer Privacy Law

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The Situation: Unanimously passed by the California state legislature, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 introduces the nation's most wide-ranging consumer data privacy laws. The Result: New consumer protections...more

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What You Need to Know: California’s New Privacy Act

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On June 28, 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). CCPA, unlike any other law, requires companies to honor specific privacy rights of California consumers granted under CCPA....more

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California Moves Towards GDPR-like Privacy Protections in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

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...On June 28, 2018, California passed AB 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), which will become effective January 1, 2020. Introduced just a week earlier in an effort to defeat a much stricter...more

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California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 Brings Some GDPR Aspects Stateside

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On June 28, 2018, California adopted the strictest general privacy and data security law in the country, called the “California Consumer Privacy Act” (codified in Assembly Bill 375), which will come into effect on January 1,...more

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GDPR "Lite" Comes to the United States: The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

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Last month the GDPR launch in the EU was punctuated by lawsuits seeking $8.8 billion from Google and Facebook. It turns out that the GDPR foreshadowed significant changes to the US data privacy landscape that came much sooner...more

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PRIVACY ALERT: California Leads the Privacy Parade Again with Groundbreaking Privacy Legislation

June 28, 2018 will be a watershed day in the history of U.S. data privacy legislation. California has become the first state to move away from the U.S. approach of legislating data privacy in slow bits. Yesterday, both houses...more

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Three Point Shot - June 2018

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Welcome to Three Point Shot, a newsletter brought to you by the Sports Law Group at Proskauer. Three Point Shot brings you the latest in sports law-related news and provides you with links to related materials. In this issue,...more

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Revisiting the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act – Again

For the second time in two years, West Virginia’s legislature passes a bill to modify the state consumer protection law....more

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