September 9, 2016 This week, a putative class action complaint was filed in the federal court for the Central District of California against Verizon Wireless Services, LLC (“Verizon”), alleging various violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). The TCPA class action complaint contemplates two separate classes of individuals with alleged grievances against Verizon. What […]
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September 8, 2016 The most valuable asset that an alarm company has in its portfolio, whether it is a new enterprise or a well-established business, is the standard alarm contract that it uses to build its client base. This is equally true whether the alarm company’s customers are residential consumers or commercial entities. What are
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September 6, 2016 Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida had granted a summary judgment motion against various businesses, law firms and individuals for FTC Act and the Mortgage Assistance Relief Services Rule violations. In awarding the FTC summary judgment, the Court
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September 2, 2016 A recent decision in Silverstein v Keynetics, Inc. et al, by a federal judge in the Northern District of California has provided a glimmer of hope to email marketers that the seemingly limitless reach of California’s anti-spam law may finally be abating. In a spam lawsuit ruling that relied heavily on the
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September 1, 2016 This Monday, seven-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist Gladys Knight commenced a federal unfair competition lawsuit against her own son and his businesses in connection with a chain of Atlanta-area chicken and waffle restaurants bearing Knight’s name and likeness. How can businesses avoid legal issues related to third-party names and brands?
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August 31, 2016 Last week, the plaintiff collegiate athletes in a putative class action lawsuit pending in the Southern District Court of Indiana filed their opposition to FanDuel and DraftKings’ respective motions to dismiss. The opposition seeks to keep alive the claims that the fantasy sports companies violated their rights of publicity under Indiana law
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August 30, 2016 Last Tuesday, the federal district court for the Northern District of California held oral arguments on a motion for summary judgment filed by Yelp in a consumer privacy lawsuit involving other prominent technology companies, including Twitter, Apple and Instagram. The lawsuit focuses on various application developers’ use of a “find friends” feature,
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August 20, 2016 On August 22, 2016, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion for class certification in a putative class-action lawsuit alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). The plaintiffs, various medical offices, sued the defendants alleging that defendants sent unsolicited fax advertisements for medical