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Introduction In 2022, Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) litigation was bustling. Defendants in BIPA cases ranged from pharmacies, insurance companies, and social media platforms to software companies, schools, and [...]

The decades-old Video Privacy Protection Act , 18 U.S.C. s. 2710 etseq. (VPPA), is at the heart of an emerging trend in privacy litigation aimed at media companies that own [...]

The Supreme Court has issued its much-anticipated ruling in Facebook v. Duguid, impacting many pending TCPA cases nationwide and providing guidance to the many businesses that engage in calling and [...]

On January 16, Senators John Thune and Ed Markey reintroduced a bipartisan bill designed to update the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and ramp up enforcement against unwanted robocalls and [...]

Does the Hobbs Act require district courts to accept the Federal Communications Commission's legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act? That is the question the United States Supreme Court [...]

On September 20, 2018, the Ninth Circuit weighed in on the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. § 227. [...]

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission ('FCC') issued a public notice (the 'Notice') seeking comment on key aspects of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ('TCPA') that were addressed in the [...]

In the high-risk Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) arena, the Ninth Circuit recently offered some respite. On January 10, 2018, the Ninth Circuit limited the potential liability that companies may [...]

On January 30, 2017, in Van Patten v. Vertical Fitness Group, No. 14-55980, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) plaintiff had sufficiently [...]

In response to a provision in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (Pub. L. No. 114-74), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the 'Commission') has promulgated a notice of proposed [...]

On July 10, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a 140-page Omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order in response to more than two dozen petitions from businesses, attorneys general, and [...]

On July 10, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a 140-page Omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order in response to more than two dozen petitions from businesses, attorneys general, and [...]

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which generally prohibits certain calls to cell phones made with an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (ATDS), has created considerable compliance challenges for businesses, and [...]

Businesses that engage in telemarketing or the delivery of text messages, take note: the already tough rules of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) are about to get tougher. The [...]

FROM FLYING ROBOTS TO LOGISTICS BLISS: A CASE STUDY By Thomas J. Knox The motors whirred as a robotic trolley sped down the long warehouse alleyway. As it went it [...]