July 8, 2015 On June 25, 2015, the senior Senator of the State of New York, Mr. Charles Schumer, introduced a bill before the United States Senate seeking to pass the “Quell Unnecessary, Intentional, and Encroaching Telephone Calls Act of 2015 (the “QUIET Act”). If passed, the QUIET Act will impose harsh financial penalties, and […]
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July 2, 2015 This Monday, PayPal, Inc. (“PayPal”) apologized to its customers and overhauled controversial telemarketing consent language in its recently revised User Agreement. PayPal’s decision follows a pair of sharply worded letters delivered to the company three weeks ago by the New York Attorney General’s Office (“NYAG”) and Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), which questioned
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July 1, 2015 Last Monday, a federal district court in Orlando issued a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) against a Florida corporation, five Florida limited liability companies and seven of the businesses’ respective officers (the “Defendants”), freezing the telemarketers’ assets and temporarily halting the group’s marketing initiatives. The Federal Trade Commission and Florida Attorney General’s Office
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June 30, 2015 On June 16, the United States District Court for the Central District of California issued an ex parte temporary restraining order prohibiting certain marketing companies from continuing to offer “risk free trials.” The injunction follows the filing of a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) against negative option marketers who promoted
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June 29, 2015 Last month, a working group for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) issued a report that contemplates whether the owners of certain commercial websites should be forbidden from using WHOIS proxy services to hide their identities. The working group is accepting public comments on the proposal, which has drawn
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June 26, 2015 We had previously written about the reports that the Walt Disney Co. (“Disney”) had entered into talks with DraftKings about an investment opportunity that would provide Disney with an equity position in the fantasy sports company, while valuing DraftKings at around $1 billion. We would like to update our readers and advise
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June 26, 2015 On June 8, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California alleging that Wyndham Vacation Resorts, Inc. (“Wyndham”) violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). In the action, the plaintiff alleges that Wyndham “placed multiple calls in a single day to Plaintiff’s
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June 25, 2015 Last Monday, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office announced that it has settled its concerns with Florida-based Tactical Marketing Inc. d/b/a Prize Research Agency (PRA) and Prize Finders Network (PFN) (“Tactical Marketing”), as well as the company’s owner and president, Mr. Raymond Jastrzemski. The sweepstakes marketer has been permanently banned from delivering allegedly
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