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Telemarketing Coronavirus/COVID-19 Telephone Consumer Protection Act

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Tenth Circuit Finds That Invitations to Town Halls Regarding Covid-19 Triggered the TCPA’s Emergency Purposes Exception; Declines...

In a case analyzing whether invitations to town hall meetings regarding COVID-19 were exempted from liability by the TCPA’s emergency purposes exception, the Tenth Circuit declined to address whether a municipality is a...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Insurance Update - November 2021

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We bring you our November Insurance Update. Here’s what happened over the past month. Insurers scored a hat trick before the Ninth Circuit, as the court found no coverage for pandemic-related business interruption...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 12.8.2020 | Top Story: Uber Sheds Long-Struggling Self-Driving Unit in Deal With Aurora

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After an ill-fated multi-year effort to develop a self-driving car, Uber (which spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” on the project) is “handing the autonomous vehicle effort over to a Silicon Valley start-up”—Aurora—along...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Most COVID-19 Calls Are Not an “Emergency Purpose,” and Other Unexpected Developments

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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every facet of society in unpredictable ways, and the laws and regulations governing calls and text messages are no exception. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker - April 2020

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

U.S. Financial Institutions Petition FCC to Exclude Their Informational Calls from TCPA Liability During the COVID-19 Pandemic

On March 30, 2020, the American Bankers Association (“ABA”) and several other associations of banks and credit unions (together, “petitioners”) effectively asked the FCC to exempt all COVID-related calls and texts to...more

Blank Rome LLP

Beware of Telemarketing Call Limitations during the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis

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Within a span of weeks, the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic has swept across the country, causing unprecedented disruption across all business sectors. In particular, telemarketers now face sizeable legal restrictions on...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Telemarketing During the Pandemic

Over the past few weeks, my colleagues have discussed some of the considerations for marketing around COVID-19, including claim substantiation and price gouging. ...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

State Telemarketing Restrictions During the Coronavirus Pandemic

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We recently discussed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) exemption for autodialed calls, prerecorded messages, and text messages made for emergency purposes and what the exemption means for businesses who need to...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

NY’s Nuisance Call Act goes into effect; NY state of emergency prompts further marketing call restrictions

New York’s Nuisance Call Act (NYNC Act), signed into law in December 2019 and effective as of March 1, 2020, amends New York’s telemarketing law (specifically, N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 399-z) by requiring live voice outbound...more

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