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Investigative Power: Utilizing Self Service Solutions for Internal Investigations?
[Podcast] Broadband and Beyond: A Conversation with NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson
Corruption, Crime, and Compliance - A Deep Dive into KT Corp's SEC Settlement for FCPA Violations
Cybersecurity and 889 Compliance in 2021: What Government Contractors Need to Know
CF on Cyber: An Update on the Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA)
Investing in Colombia: Infrastructure Trends and 5G Concessions
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Telecommunication Consumer Protection Act (TCPA): Update and Practical Guidance
Navigating Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act
Does Cellular 5G Equal 5x the Fraud and Misconduct Risk?
The Promise of Connectivity: A Conversation with USTelecom President & CEO Jonathan Spalter
Robocall Update: New Call Authentication Order and Obligations, Explained
Continuing its focus on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sent letters to nine telecommunications companies asking about the efforts they are taking to prevent...more
A Pennsylvania federal court has ruled that a lawmaker can be held personally liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for prerecorded robocalls that were intended as government communications to...more
Calls and messages encouraging a recipient to sign up for free nutrition counseling services did not constitute telephone solicitations within the meaning of the TCPA, according to a reported decision from a Wisconsin federal...more
An Arizona federal court determined that opt-in texts could violate the TCPA in a new decision. Although Monica Abboud registered her phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry, she alleged that she received...more
A U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland recently denied summary judgment in a case under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), finding that the defendant failed to show it received prior express written...more
In the latest decision in a long-running saga in Drazen v. Pinto, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals tackled several issues regarding a proposed class settlement agreement....more
In Career Counseling, Inc. v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a district court’s decision denying class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more
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
The purported existence of a telemarketing contract and facts suggesting control over the calling party was enough to avoid dismissal of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claim for vicarious liability in Pennsylvania...more
In the first decision on the issue, an Arizona federal court held that a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) text didn’t run afoul of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more
A text sent one business day after a plaintiff requested a halt to text messages was not enough to move a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) suit forward, a Florida federal court determined....more
A district court in the District of Arizona granted a motion to dismiss in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case on the basis that multimedia messaging service (MMS) texts do not constitute prerecorded messages...more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its largest fine to date, totaling $299,997,000, in an action against an auto warranty scam robocall operation run by an international network....more
This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses whether text messages can violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s prohibition on “prerecorded voice” messages, and it considers whether debtors who paid statutory fees under an...more
Trim v Reward Zone USA LLC, No. 22-55517, 2023 WL 5025264 (9th Cir. August 8, 2023) - Plaintiff filed a putative class action, contending, in part, that three marketing text messages she received utilized prerecorded voices,...more
Last week, the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture proposing a $20 million forfeiture, essentially a fine, against two telecommunications service providers for failing...more
Perrong v. Montgomery County Democratic Committee, et al., No. 22-cv-4475 (E.D. Pa. July 18, 2023)... Plaintiff sued Defendants, claiming that they violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s prohibition of making...more
Brennan Landy v. Vision Solar, LLC d/b/a Solar Exchange, No. 21-20241 2023 WL 4578993 (D.N.J. July 18, 2023) - In this case, Plaintiff filed a putative class action alleging Defendant violated the Telephone Consumer...more
On November 2, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida held, sua sponte, that a plaintiff did not have standing to bring a class action suit alleging a TCPA violation. The February 9, 2022 complaint...more
Creating a split in authority, a Texas federal court determined that a text message providing information about a free COVID-19 vaccine was covered by the “emergency purposes” exception to the Telephone Consumer Protection...more
A New Jersey federal court has refused to hold the CEO of companies also named as defendants in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit personally liable. ...more
Staffing companies and employers using all tools at their disposal to recruit workers may face increased risk following the Ninth Circuit’s recent opinion in Loyhayem v. Fraser Financial. In Loyhayem, the court found that...more
On December 16, 2019, the Supreme Court denied DISH Network’s petition for certiorari seeking to overturn a $61 million judgment for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) violations based on telemarking calls made to...more
The Sweden-based telecommunications company, Ericsson, agreed to a pay a total of $1 billion (yes, billion with a “B”) for FCPA violations. Ericsson entered into settlement agreements with DOJ and the SEC. Ericsson agreed to...more
As we previously discussed, the need for clarification as to the TCPA’s treatment of outbound calls made using soundboard technology (“soundboard calls”) is particularly manifest in light of two pending petitions before the...more