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Client Alert: No CCF! No Federal Funding! How Do We Raise Funds Now? – Avoiding Legal Pitfalls When Beginning New Fundraising...

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Nonprofits are experiencing funding challenges and scrambling to fund their missions. While termination of nonprofits’ federal funding has garnered a lot of attention recently, yet another funding challenge arose this week....more

Troutman Amin LLP

SIGNED BY SILENCE?: Court Finds Consumer Agreed to Arbitration By Failing To Respond to A Text Message– And Its A Little Odd

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Hello from the road! So contract law generally requires a party to manifest their assent to the terms of any agreement. That means while you cannot get away with saying “I didnt read the contract I signed” you generally can...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Is One Text Message Enough? - McGlinchey Commercial Law Bulletin - July 31, 2023

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Vacating an Arbitration Award- The Bullet Point: Ohio’s Arbitration Act strongly favors arbitration. Because of this, Ohio’s Arbitration Act limits the jurisdiction of a court once an arbitration has been conducted. It also...more

Benesch

DCD Compels Arbitration for TCPA Class Action Despite Being Non-Signatory to Agreement

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The District of Massachusetts’s recent decision in Fairfield v. DCD Auto. Holdings, Inc., No. 22-cv-11977, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 109463 (D. Mass. June 26, 2023) serves as a key reminder for businesses not only to have...more

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Text Message Emoji Was Sufficient to Agree to Contract

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Agreeing to a contract does not require everyone sitting around a table signing documents; sending a “thumbs up” text message emoji was sufficient to agree to a contract according to a recent Canadian court decision....more

Venable LLP

About That First Florida Telephone Solicitation Act Class Action Settlement…

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The plaintiff in Alvarez v. Sunshine Life & Health Advisors LLC - the first Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA) action to settle on a class basis - filed his motion for preliminary approval of the settlement. And the...more

Carlton Fields

Court Compels Arbitration Based on Text Message Agreement

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A district court has granted a motion to compel arbitration based on an arbitration clause in an agreement sent via text message and agreed to via a reply text. ...more

Buchalter

Hey Siri, Why Did You Settle That Case Without Me Signing?

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In a world of texts, email and Siri, you should be careful about the impact of the words you write.  Remember that case where a court found that a string of text messages can form a binding contract? ...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2019

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Cybersecurity company Carbon Black recently issued are port of the results of a survey of chief information security officers (CISOs) of financial organizations, which showed that the financial industry is getting hammered by...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Bargained-For Consent: An Increasingly Viable Defense to TCPA Claims

• In most TCPA cases, a threshold question is whether a called party has provided prior express consent to receive calls (or texts) using an automatic telephone dialing system. • While numerous courts have ruled that a party...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Second Circuit Holds Consumers Cannot Revoke Consent Given as Consideration in Bilateral Contract in TCPA Case

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a consumer who agrees to be contacted via telephone call or text messages as bargained-for consideration in a bilateral contract cannot subsequently revoke his or her...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Land Court Finds that Texting Can Bind Parties

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The Massachusetts Land Court has held that text messages may form a binding contract in connection with the sale of real estate!! While neither punctuation nor colorful texting acronyms can make this decision more noteworthy...more

Goodwin

Ninth Circuit Adopts Broad Interpretation of Spokeo and Article III Standing Requirement

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On Monday, January 30, 2017, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in Van Patten v. Vertical Fitness Group, LLC, No. 14-55980, that the plaintiff’s allegation that he received unsolicited text messages in violation...more

Cozen O'Connor

Text Messages Add New Layer of Risk to Deal-Making in the Modern Age

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Texting is becoming ubiquitous in this era of 24/7 connectivity, but a recent court decision stands as a strong reminder that those quickly composed texts can be held up as a “writing” sufficient to seal a multi-million...more

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