Episode 345 -- Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Resolve Fraud, FCPA, ITAR and False Claims Act Violations
The ‘Long Arm’ of CIPA and Its Newfound Pen-Trap Claims
Episode 119 -- The Ericsson FCPA Settlement
I remember when default judgments in TCPA cases were for like $4,500.00. Then guys started hitting the mid-five figures. But now recoveries in the six figures on a default basis is becoming pretty standard. The truth is the...more
On February 4, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) against voice service provider Telnyx LLC (Telnyx) for alleged violations of the...more
We should all admit something (among many things) — reading through factual statements of bribery offenses, the facts all start to meld together. Criminals are not as ingenuous or creative as they think, and the schemes they...more
A U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland recently denied summary judgment in a case under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), finding that the defendant failed to show it received prior express written...more
In the latest decision in a long-running saga in Drazen v. Pinto, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals tackled several issues regarding a proposed class settlement agreement....more
In Career Counseling, Inc. v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a district court’s decision denying class certification in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more
Bank v. ICOT Holdings, LLC, 18-cv-02554 (AMD) (PK), 2024 WL 278460 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 25, 2024) - Pro se Plaintiff, an attorney, filed a class action lawsuit alleging that two calls he answered at his mother’s house...more
A district court in the District of Arizona granted a motion to dismiss in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case on the basis that multimedia messaging service (MMS) texts do not constitute prerecorded messages...more
This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses whether text messages can violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s prohibition on “prerecorded voice” messages, and it considers whether debtors who paid statutory fees under an...more
Trim v Reward Zone USA LLC, No. 22-55517, 2023 WL 5025264 (9th Cir. August 8, 2023) - Plaintiff filed a putative class action, contending, in part, that three marketing text messages she received utilized prerecorded voices,...more
Last week, the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture proposing a $20 million forfeiture, essentially a fine, against two telecommunications service providers for failing...more
Perrong v. Montgomery County Democratic Committee, et al., No. 22-cv-4475 (E.D. Pa. July 18, 2023)... Plaintiff sued Defendants, claiming that they violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s prohibition of making...more
Brennan Landy v. Vision Solar, LLC d/b/a Solar Exchange, No. 21-20241 2023 WL 4578993 (D.N.J. July 18, 2023) - In this case, Plaintiff filed a putative class action alleging Defendant violated the Telephone Consumer...more
On November 2, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida held, sua sponte, that a plaintiff did not have standing to bring a class action suit alleging a TCPA violation. The February 9, 2022 complaint...more
Staffing companies and employers using all tools at their disposal to recruit workers may face increased risk following the Ninth Circuit’s recent opinion in Loyhayem v. Fraser Financial. In Loyhayem, the court found that...more
On December 16, 2019, the Supreme Court denied DISH Network’s petition for certiorari seeking to overturn a $61 million judgment for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) violations based on telemarking calls made to...more
The Sweden-based telecommunications company, Ericsson, agreed to a pay a total of $1 billion (yes, billion with a “B”) for FCPA violations. Ericsson entered into settlement agreements with DOJ and the SEC. Ericsson agreed to...more
As we previously discussed, the need for clarification as to the TCPA’s treatment of outbound calls made using soundboard technology (“soundboard calls”) is particularly manifest in light of two pending petitions before the...more
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan gave us notable cases like Gary v. TrueBlue, Inc., Case No. 17-cv-10544, 2018 WL 3647046 (E.D. Mich. Aug. 1, 2018), where the court held that random or...more