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08.01.24

TCPA Suit Tossed Where Plaintiff Not A ‘Called Party’

A Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) plaintiff who was neither a subscriber of the telephone number nor a customary user of the number failed to state a claim under the statute, a New York federal court has ruled.


07.30.24

FTC Noncompete Rule Survives Challenge

In the second federal district court ruling to date on the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning nearly all noncompete agreements, a Pennsylvania court upheld the FTC rule as a legitimate exercise of the FTC’s substantive rulemaking authority under the FTC Act.


06.25.24

Court Allows Personal Claims Against Government Official for TCPA Violations

A Pennsylvania federal court has ruled that a lawmaker can be held personally liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for prerecorded robocalls that were intended as government communications to constituents.


06.25.24

Calls, Texts For Free Services Do Not Fall Under TCPA

Calls and messages encouraging a recipient to sign up for free nutrition counseling services did not constitute telephone solicitations within the meaning of the TCPA, according to a reported decision from a Wisconsin federal court.


06.25.24

Allstate Faces Liability For Agents’ Calls

An insurance company is on the hook for calls made by its agents after a decision from a federal court in Illinois.


06.25.24

Opt-In Texts Violated the TCPA, Arizona Court Rules

An Arizona federal court determined that opt-in texts could violate the TCPA in a new decision.


05.09.24

FTC Regulation Tracker – April 2024

The big regulatory news out of the FTC in April was the issuance of a new Final Rule governing noncompete agreements.


04.24.24

What to Know: The FTC’s New Rule Banning Noncompetes

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to approve issuance of a Final Rule banning nearly all noncompete agreements nationwide.


04.05.24

FTC Regulation Tracker – March 2024

The Final Rules keep rolling in, but with a twist. Each of the two Final Rules released in March were accompanied by Supplemental Notices of Proposed Rulemaking.


02.28.24

AI Gone Wild: Airline Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Fabricated

In a recent case brought in front of the Civil Resolution Tribunal (“CRT”) of British Columbia, Moffatt v. Air Canada, 2024 BCCRT 149, the CRT found in favor of an airline customer who relied on information about an airline’s refund policy provided by a chatbot after the customer ...