03.27.19
As expected, on March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which, if adopted, would raise the minimum salary thresholds for the FLSA’s “white collar” and “highly-compensated” exemptions.
03.26.19
On March 18, 2019, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against Manatt client Blue Shield of California.
Finding that a fax promoting the commercial availability of the defendant’s referral and discount network could be an unsolicited advertisement, a federal court in the Western District of New York denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss in Lackawanna Chiropractic v. Tivity Health ...
In February 2019, Twilio, a cloud communications software company, was unable to convince a Nevada federal court to dismiss a putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action filed against the company and a Las Vegas-based theater company that had engaged Twilio’s services, as ...
In Franklin v. Upland Software Inc., a federal magistrate judge in Texas denied a summary judgment motion against a texting software platform, finding that the platform could not be held liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
Caribbean Cruise Line—a frequent subject of this newsletter—sailed away from class certification in another putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action, successfully persuading a federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois that the plaintiff was an inadequate ...
In Ramos v. PF Homestead LLC, a Florida federal court refused to send a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case to arbitration, rejecting the defendant’s attempt to rely on the arbitration provision in a canceled gym membership agreement.
Months after the ACA International decision from the D.C. Circuit changed the face of litigation in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) world by striking down the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) 2015 automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) guidance, courts remain split on ...
03.25.19
Telehealth is part of a larger digital transformation in healthcare. Care that used to take place only in brick-and-mortar settings can now occur digitally.
Q: Health Plan A funded a county agency that provides detoxification services to develop a more integrated withdrawal management model for its dually eligible members.