sweepstakes law

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Planning on Running a Facebook Sweepstakes? Here’s What You Need to Know

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Sweepstakes promotions are great promotional tools which serve to engage consumers and attract new ones. When advertising sweepstakes on social media, businesses must be careful to abide by each respective social media platform’s distinct promotional contest rules, policies and guidelines. By way of example, in this blog we highlight the rules that sweepstakes operators must […]

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HBO’s McMillion$: A Reminder to Comply with Sweepstakes Law

HBO’s McMillion$: A Reminder to Comply with Sweepstakes Law

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If you want to enter the sweepstakes business, familiarize yourself with sweepstakes law and consult legal counsel to ensure compliance. HBO’s new docuseries, McMillion$, is the fascinating story of how the sponsors of the McDonald’s Monopoly sweepstakes were scammed out of $24 million dollars in the 1990s. Despite the scam, the McDonald’s Monopoly sweepstakes was

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Mobile App Sweepstakes and the Law

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October 10, 2019 The world’s population is increasingly reliant on smart phones and other similar mobile devices.  Businesses have been adjusting to this new reality by pursuing consumer outreach through mobile applications (or “apps”) that can be downloaded and accessed via smart phones.  Regardless of the medium or technology involved, one particularly potent means of

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FTC Obtains Sweepstakes Sponsor Asset Freeze

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September 20, 2018 In February of this year, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Missouri State officials brought charges against a network of Kansas City area businesses (“Defendants”) which allegedly had used deceptive sweepstakes and other prize mailers to bilk consumers out of more than $100 million. The complaint alleges that Defendants sent prize notices

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Games of Skill v. Games of Chance – The Legal Analysis

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Illegal gambling is generally defined as an activity where a person provides consideration for the opportunity to win a prize in games of chance. Consideration typically takes the form of currency, but it can be anything of value (hence the idiom, losing your shirt). If there is no consideration, or the game is deemed a

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Motion to Transfer Venue in Sweepstakes Law Action Granted

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July 30, 2018  Last month, a federal district court in the State of New Jersey granted a motion to transfer venue filed by Raymour & Flanigan (“Raymour”), pursuant to a forum-selection clause contained in its Sweepstakes Official Rules (“Sweepstakes Agreement”). Evelyn Manopla, the Plaintiff named in the sweepstakes law class action against Raymour, argued that

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NCAA Seeks Attorneys’ Fees after Sweepstakes Lawsuit Win

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March 8, 2018 After winning its federal sweepstakes lawsuit against promotional contest sponsor Kizzang LLC (“Kizzang”), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) has requested recovery of over $242,000 in attorneys’ fees from Kizzang. Why is Kizzang footing the NCAA’s six-figure legal bill?

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