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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
• 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
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
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
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
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