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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
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Wiley Consumer Protection Download (September 4, 2024)

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Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more

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CARU Settles With KidGeni AI Platform Over Alleged Privacy Violations 

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit recently settled with KidGeni – a generative art platform intended for children- for allegedly violating both CARU’s guidelines and COPPA. According to CARU, which is a self-regulatory...more

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Websites and Wiretap Laws: Emerging Trends in Privacy Class Action Litigation Risks

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As an onslaught of recent class actions allege, companies may be liable for eavesdropping and wiretapping based on the use of common analytics software on their platforms. For instance, in California, plaintiffs have filed...more

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Fourth Circuit Holds Faxes Received Online Not Subject to TCPA

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A fax is a fax is a fax… or is it? In a recent ruling in the long-running TCPA junk fax case Career Counseling, Inc. v. AmeriFactors Financial Group, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the statute’s prohibition...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

No Laughing Matter: Comedian Sarah Silverman Sues Meta Platforms and OpenAI for Copyright Infringement

Comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden recently filed class-action lawsuits against Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook) and ChatGPT maker OpenAI (backed by Microsoft Corp.) for...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - March 2023

Circuits Split Over Whether Targeting Is Necessary for Seller Liability - Key Points - - While courts have long held that solicitations must be tailored to a particular audience to precipitate statutory seller liability,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Decision in Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s Favor Highlights Subtleties of Drafting Enforceable Arbitration...

In Oberstein v. Live Nation Ent. Inc. No. 21-56200 (9th Cir. Feb. 13, 2023), the Ninth Circuit addressed the question of whether the arbitration and class action waiver clauses on Ticketmaster’s and Live Nation’s websites...more

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AD-ttorneys@law - June 2022 #2

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No More Social Fix for Cali Kids? New state bill targets social media addiction - Vertigo 2.0 - There’s a tidal wave of anger against social media. And every time it seems to crest, another swell comes up from...more

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Crypto Chaos: EthereumMax Executives, Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and Paul Pierce Sued in Cryptocurrency Advertising...

Cryptocurrency, social media, and celebrity or influencer endorsements have all been top of mind recently, including for advertisers. A newly filed lawsuit is asking a federal court to consider the intersection of these...more

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AD-ttorneys@law – February 2021 #2

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Google Bests Consumer Class Action with Section 230 Defense - But district court leaves door open for an amended complaint - Four Americans = 12 Opinions - The tsouris invoked by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act...more

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AD-ttorneys@law – July 2020 #3

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Bumble Settles over Multistate Dating Lawsuit - Company allegedly renewed services without consent - All the Young Dudes - For a while there, online dating was beginning to look IRLish. ...more

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AD-ttorneys@law – June 2020 #3

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Pablo Escobar Estate Sues Atlanta Restaurant - Eponymous eatery uses drug lord’s likeness to bump biz and sell swag - Strange Praise - You have to wonder about a restaurant that promises “tasteful ambience” but names itself...more

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Cartel Snapshot - February 2019

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Q4 Update: Overview of Cartel Investigations - Although 2018 saw guilty pleas and new indictments in several ongoing Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations, the year finished by continuing a downward trend in antitrust...more

Carlton Fields

Fifth Circuit Finds Waiver Of Arbitration Where Motion To Dismiss Argued Merits, Omitted Mention Of Arbitration, And Created...

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A consumer (Forby) filed a proposed class action in Illinois state court alleging that One Technologies, L.P. (One Tech) failed to adequately disclose that consumers who accessed their “free” online credit score on the...more

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"Double-Dipping" Class Actions Illustrate Importance of Ticketing Compliance Programs

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Piling on after undercover journalists published exposés on alleged misconduct involving Ticketmaster's TradeDesk reseller program, consumers have filed a wave of class actions against Ticketmaster, claiming that the company...more

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New Jersey Supreme Court Favors Retailers in Landmark Ruling Limiting TCCWNA Claims

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• In what has been described as a landmark ruling on behalf of both national retailers and consumers alike, the New Jersey Supreme Court has established critical law to limit exposure to purported class action claims...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update - Consumer benefits of keyword restrictions; Trivago's reliance on short-term rentals; Growing...

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This week’s OTA & Travel Distribution Update for the week ending May 18, 2018, is below. This week’s Update features our fourth installment in our 6-part series on alleged anti-trust abuses by hoteliers arising from their...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update - Dec. 8th, 2017

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This week’s OTA & Travel Distribution Update for the week ending December 8, 2017 is below. OTA powerhouses, Expedia and Booking.com, feature prominently in this week’s Update....more

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August 2017: The Top 11 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes each month in 2017. August was no...more

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Key SCOTUS Decisions in Tech – First Half 2017

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Despite being short one justice for much of the year, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down multiple significant decisions this past term that can unsettle long-standing legal understandings in multiple technology fields. These...more

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Two New Jersey District Courts Dismiss TCCWNA Cases On Spokeo Grounds and Address What It Means To Be An “Aggrieved Consumer”...

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In recent months, federal and state courts in New Jersey have been faced with numerous motions to dismiss class action complaints alleging that online retailers’ website terms and conditions violate New Jersey’s...more

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NJ’s Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act: Will Related Class Actions Against Retailers Continue?

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This year brought a wave of class action complaints alleging that national retailers are violating the New Jersey Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (TCCWNA), N.J.S.A. §§ 56:12-14 et seq., by including...more

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When a Published Data Breach is a Covered Data Breach

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Can an inadvertent Internet posting of a patient’s medical information trigger insurance coverage for liability stemming from a data-breach class action? The Fourth Circuit held last week that it can, and it added to the...more

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Garçon to FanDuel: Check please!

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What are a veteran NFL player’s name, image, and likeness worth in the burgeoning (but recently beleaguered-by-lawsuits) daily fantasy sports gaming industry? NFL wide receiver Pierre Garçon’s putative class action lawsuit...more

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CFPB files amicus brief in U.S. Supreme Court Article III standing case

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The CFPB, together with the DOJ, has filed a second amicus brief in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, the case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court in which the issue is whether a plaintiff who cannot show any actual harm from a...more

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