April 7, 2015 Yesterday marked the arrival of opening day of the 2015 season for most Major League Baseball (MLB) teams. Aside from the aspirations of the various players, coaches and fans, the upcoming season contains promise of a slightly different nature: the possible loosening of sports betting laws. What is happening in the world […]
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April 6, 2015 On April 2, 2015, a class action lawsuit was filed against PVH Corp., d/b/a Tommy Hilfiger (“TH”), alleging that TH violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (‘TCPA”) by sending mass commercial text message advertisements to consumer cell phones without obtaining prior express written consent to send such messages. The lawsuit, filed in
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April 2, 2015 This week, attorneys general from across the country filed suit, as part of a coordinated effort against an Oregon company for deceptive magazine and newspaper solicitation practices. The top prosecutors accuse Liberty Publisher Services, Orbital Publishing Group (“Orbital”) and their principals, of overcharging consumers for subscriptions to newspapers, magazines and other periodicals.
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Daily Fantasy Sports Growth Pushes Leagues to Regulate Players The rapid evolution of fantasy sports from casual season-long recreation to high-stakes daily Internet games has given U.S. professional sports another source of revenue as well as a headache in determining player-participation policies. Over the last year, all four major U.S. sports leagues signed sponsorship deals
March 31, 2015 This Monday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman called off an investigation involving herbal supplements manufactured, marketed and sold by health and nutrition retailer GNC Corporation (“GNC”). The parties’ groundbreaking agreement requires GNC to implement a series of novel quality control standards for its store-brand herbal supplements. Will GNC’s agreement have
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March 30, 2015 The Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC” or “Commission”) and various law enforcement agencies are racing forward with their latest campaign against deceptive advertising, code-named “Operation Ruse Control.” The initiative is a coast-to-coast and cross-border effort by the FTC and state, federal and international law enforcers aimed at deceptive automobile advertisements, adds-ons, financing and
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March 27, 2015 On March 24, 2015, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California denied Guess?, Inc.’s (“Guess”) motion to dismiss a telephone consumer protection act (“TCPA”) class action pending against it. Guess argued that the plaintiff’s complaint failed to demonstrate that Guess had used an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”)
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March 26, 2015 This week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an order against Jerk, LLC and Napster co-founder John Fanning, respectively, for deceptive trade practices in connection with the operation of Jerk.com, a social media site that invited users to create profiles of other individuals and rate those individuals as a “jerk” or “not
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