• 11.28.17

    Third Circuit’s Spokeo Decision Applied by Alabama District Court

    The Third Circuit’s standing opinion in Sussino v. Work Out World Inc. might be having a ripple effect at the district court level, most recently in an opinion issued in a putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action pending over 800 miles away in the Northern District ...

  • 11.21.17

    The Legality of Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Under the ACA

    Health insurers may have experienced uncertainty in 2017 when they were setting 2018 rates for individual plans sold on federal and state exchanges pursuant to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

  • 11.21.17

    Texas Medical Board Immune From Antitrust Suit

    In 2015, the Supreme Court injected great uncertainty into the operation of state medical boards with its ruling in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, 135 S. Ct. 1101 (2015), that when a state board is controlled by active market participants, that entity must be actively supervised ...

  • 11.20.17

    Insider Trading: Once More Into the Breach

    On Aug. 23, 2017, the Second Circuit decided U.S. v. Martoma, in which the court affirmed a tippee’s conviction in an insider trading case based on the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Salman v. U.S. The Martoma opinion further eroded the Second Circuit’s own landmark 2014 ...

  • 11.16.17

    California Court Tosses Arbitration Agreement ‘Permeated’ by Unconscionability

    Concluding that an arbitration agreement was both substantively and procedurally unconscionable, a California appellate panel affirmed denial of an employer’s motion to compel arbitration.

  • 11.07.17

    California Employers Face Multiple New Laws

    With several new employment-related measures recently signed into law, California employers should start preparing themselves now.

  • 10.31.17

    Reassigned Numbers: Commenters Embrace Database, Split on Safe Harbor

    Of the dozens of comments filed in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) request on how to handle the problem of reassigned numbers, the majority appeared to support the agency’s plan to establish a central database, although opinions differed on the details.

  • 10.31.17

    Human Intervention Means Program Not ATDS, Illinois Court Rules

    Human intervention to make calls on behalf of the defendant ruled out the use of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS), an Illinois federal court judge has ruled, granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant.

  • 10.31.17

    Court Reduces TCPA Damages From $1.6B to $32M

    Finding $32 million to be a more reasonable award than $1.6 billion, a Missouri federal court judge ordered the producers of “Last Ounce of Courage” to pay for phone calls promoting the movie that ran afoul of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).

  • 10.31.17

    Eight-Figure Settlements Continue for TCPA Disputes

    Multimillion-dollar settlements continue to be a popular solution to Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class actions, as demonstrated by a recent retailer agreement.

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