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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - September 2024

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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that Illinois has joined an $82.5 million proposed antitrust settlement with Varsity Brands (Varsity). As a result, Illinois consumers who paid to participate in Varsity Brands’...more

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Hoisted by Your Own (Pet)Arb Clause? New Developments in Mass Arbitration

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For more than a decade, companies have benefited immensely from the United States Supreme Court decision of AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011), which upheld a company’s right to compel consumers into...more

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First Circuit Concludes that Hybrid Cellular-VoIP Telephone Numbers Are Subject to TCPA

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The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a summary judgment granted in favor of Verizon, by concluding that a “hybrid” telephone number using both VoIP and voice wireless services must be considered “assigned to a…...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 6.13.2019 | Top Story: Emails reveal Zuckerberg aware early of Facebook privacy concerns

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A round of internal Facebook emails produced in response to an FTC probe appear to show that the company’s “potentially problematic privacy practices” had filtered their way up to the very top of the social networking...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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On second thought, Wall Street does have some questions about the specifics of the pause in the trade war that apparently emerged from the G-20 sidelines this weekend.  And when Wall Street has questions—well, not a banner...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2018 #3

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Verizon's Protected Health Information Data Breach Report Concludes that Insiders Are Greatest Threat to Health Care Entities - Verizon recently issued its Protected Health Information Data Breach Report, which is always...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Top 10 New York Commercial Division Cases and Developments of 2017

In 2017, the New York Commercial Division continued to implement new rules and refine existing rules in order to streamline litigation in the court. The year also saw some key decisions by the Commercial Division as well as...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Behavioral Advertising Company That Dropped “Zombie” Cookies Can’t Use Verizon’s Arbitration Clause To Avoid Class Action Lawsuit

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a non-party online behavioral advertising firm could not benefit from the arbitration clause in the agreement between Verizon and its customers because it was not a party to that...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Three Lessons All Companies Can Learn from the Data Breaches that Cost Yahoo $350 Million

Yahoo Inc. recently disclosed three massive data breaches, which compromised the personal information of 1.5 billion users and cost Yahoo $350 million in its acquisition by Verizon Communications Inc. Additionally, the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York Appellate Division Revives Non-Monetary Class Action Settlement in M&A Class Action with Revised Standard of Review

In Gordon v. Verizon Communications, Inc., No. 653084/13, 2017 WL 442871 (N.Y. App. Div. Feb. 2, 2017), the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Judicial Department (the “First Department”),...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

New York Court Reverses Rejection of M&A Disclosure-Only Settlement Signaling Split from Delaware

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On February 2, 2017, the Appellate Division for the First Department in New York entered an order approving a “disclosure-only” settlement. While acknowledging the “increasingly negative view” of...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Ninth Circuit Provides More Detailed Guidance on the Enforceability of Arbitration Provisions

On January 19, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Norcia v. Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC in which it provided guidance on the enforceability of arbitration agreements in...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

First Department Adds Two New Factors to New York’s Standard of Review for Non-Monetary Settlements of Shareholder Class Actions

On February 2, 2017, the Appellate Division, First Department issued a unanimous decision in Gordon v. Verizon Communications, Inc., No. 653084/13, 2017 BL 31251 (1st Dep’t Feb. 2, 2017) that may have significant consequences...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Samsung’s Motion to Compel Arbitration Based on In-Box Warranty Brochure

On January 19, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s denial of Samsung’s motion to compel arbitration by the named plaintiff in a class action alleging that Samsung made misrepresentations as to...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

What A Breach: More Than 1 Billion Yahoo! User Accounts Compromised

On Wednesday, Yahoo! disclosed that more than 1 billion of its users’ personal information was exposed in a newly discovered cyber-attack, making it the largest data breach reported to date. The breach apparently took place...more

Troutman Pepper

September 2016 Independent Contractor Misclassification and Compliance News Update

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The past month’s judicial and administrative activity in the area of IC misclassification reflects the wide range of industries facing these types of claims: communications; cleaning services; transportation and delivery...more

Carlton Fields

Court Grants Motion Of Non-Signatory To Compel Arbitration Of Privacy Violation Claims Of Putative Class Of Verizon Customers

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The class action was brought by Verizon subscribers against a “targeted advertising” company business partner of Verizon (Turn, Inc.) for deceptive trade practices under New York law. Plaintiffs alleged that Turn violated...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Is Your Privilege On Target? Lessons in Protecting Privilege from the Target Data Breach

The Target data breach has been the source of countless discussions of what to do and what not to do following a data breach. A recent ruling from the federal district court overseeing the consumer class action provides...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

How the NLRB Spent Its Summer — Could Be a Chilly Autumn

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For those of us in the employment field attempting to recover from the languor of long summer days, it’s time to catch up and ask what the NLRB has been up to during the dog days. The answer – a lot. And so we take this...more

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