August 30, 2018 The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has announced that it will increase the fees that entities pay to access telephone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry (the “Registry”) per the terms of the Do Not Call Registry Fee Extension Act of 2007 (the “Act”). The fees for yearly access to the […]
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June 11, 2018 The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently filed a lawsuit in connection with violations of federal telemarketing law and related conduct that allegedly began as early as 2001. The FTC sued an enterprise of entities and their owners, which it claims are recidivist violators of federal telemarketing laws, having been subpoenaed, investigated, and
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June 7, 2016 On May 25, 2016, a federal jury in Utah reached a monumental verdict against an individual and three of his companies, finding that the Defendants committed over 117 million violations of the Telemarketing Sales Rule. How much could the federal government impose in civil penalties?
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November 23, 2015 Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC” or “Commission”) amended its Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”) regulations to, among other things, add new outbound and inbound telemarketing payment method prohibitions. Which payment methods did the Commission ban?
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Over the past several months, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been aggressively pursuing individuals and entities that it believes violated the FTC Act and the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule (ATSR). On Tuesday, the FTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against 9 defendants: Acquinity Interactive, LLC;
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