The Office of Legal Counsel for the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") has released an opinion updating the DOJ's interpretation of the federal Wire Act.

This Wednesday, hip hop artist Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (better known as Lil Wayne) filed a federal lawsuit in New York City against his label, Cash Money Entertainment, to the tune of over $51 million.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has definitively come down on the side of fantasy sports. Last week, the Governor announced that to get a sense of what fantasy sports contests are all about, he participated in an online contest and believes the contests to be legal games of skill.

Those operating in the telemarketing space likely know of Craig Cunningham, a prolific filer of Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") lawsuits

Apple Inc. has released a new operating system for its mobile devices that is likely to have a significant effect on the telemarketing industry.

On February 6, 2019, Mr. David Rebuck, Director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (the "Division" or "NJDGE"), notified Oddsshark.com and its operators that their promotion

The reasonableness of consent revocation was one of four issues addressed in the recent decision on appeal of the Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") Telephone Consumer Protection Act 2015 Order ...

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 and Prize Finders Network, as well as the company's owner and president, Mr. Raymond Jastrzemski.

On October 8, 2015, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California dismissed a putative class action complaint alleging that CallFire, Inc. violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") has released its anticipated report and order addressing calls placed to reassigned telephone numbers.

This week, an Illinois woman filed a putative class action lawsuit in federal district court in the State of Florida against Ranieri Law LLC ("Ranieri"), a credit repair services company.

While much of the focus of the telemarketing industry in recent years has been on issues related to consumer consent...

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has awarded a Time Warner Cable Inc. customer $229,500 in connection with 163 autodialed calls placed to her cell phone over a 13-month period.

On July 12, 2017, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington dismissed a putative class action complaint filed against Twilio, Inc., alleging that the platform had violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

On January 26, 2015, a judge for the Central District of California entered an order preliminarily approving a $2.7 million settlement to resolve a Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") class action lawsuit against USCB, Inc. ("USCB").

For the past four years, the World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C") has been working to update version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ("WCAG") ...

Over the last two years, there has been an explosion of lawsuits brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") concerning issues involving website accessibility.

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").

As readers of our blog know, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") went into effect on January 1, 2022, with the aim of affording consumers "more control" over what companies...

As reported previously on this blog, Utah was poised to become the fourth state to pass a comprehensive consumer privacy law, joining California, Colorado, and Virginia.