December 23, 2015 As readers of this blog are aware, the fantasy sports industry has been generating headlines in waves over the last several months. While the legal proceedings in New York have dominated the airwaves and back pages, the news out of Massachusetts has been no less significant as State Attorney General Martha Healey […]
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December 21, 2015 Mobile App Operators Must Be Mindful of Children’s Privacy Issues As part of an increase in regulatory focus on data collection, usage and disclosure practices in the mobile app industry, especially with respect to minors, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought charges against two mobile app operators, LAI Systems, LLC and Retro Dreamer,
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December 18, 2015 On December 11, 2015, Cirque du Soleil (“Cirque”) filed a motion in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeking a stay of the plaintiff’s motion to certify a class action brought pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (“TCPA”) Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005 (“JFPA”). The
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December 18, 2015 This Tuesday, a California federal court in Los Angeles refused to dismiss DC Comics Inc.’s (“DC”) trademark lawsuit against Mad Engine, Inc. (“Mad Engine”) in connection with the business’ humorous take on DC’s iconic Superman shield logo. Can a business use someone else’s design or logo in jest?
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December 17, 2015 Yesterday morning, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request for a full rehearing of an earlier ruling in the Ed O’Bannon anti-trust lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”). This decision could set the stage for either O’Bannon or the NCAA, which had opposed the rehearing, to petition the
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December 16, 2015 On December 14, 2015, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California denied a motion for summary judgment filed by Yahoo! Inc. (“Yahoo”) which claimed that human intervention removed one of its text messaging platforms from the definition of “autodialer” within the meaning of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
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December 9, 2015 T-Mobile US, Inc. (“T-Mobile”) currently finds itself in hot water as New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office opens an investigation into the company’s “Un-Carrier” advertising campaign. Amid consumer outcry over alleged misleading advertising and deceptive marketing practices, there have also been calls urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to undertake an
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December 7, 2015 Last Wednesday, CBS network affiliate WKRG in Mobile, Alabama reported that the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office is conducting an ongoing investigation to determine whether certain sweepstakes phone cards violate Alabama State gambling laws. Why is the Attorney General investigating these sweepstakes promotions?
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