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On November 17, the named plaintiff in Toney v. Quality Resources, Inc., et al. asked an Illinois federal court for final approval of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action settlement agreement.
As background, in December 2012, Sarah Toney ordered three pairs of children’s slippers online from a website operated by Stompeez. The website …
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama recently granted final approval of a class action settlement against Boyd Biloxi LLC, alleging that Biloxi sent telemarketing messages that violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
The class action Complaint was originally filed on July 16, 2014. The named plaintiff alleged that Biloxi …
On November 9, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted final approval of a $49.9 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action settlement against US Coachways, Inc.
The original Complaint was filed against US Coachways on July 29, 2014, alleging that the motor coach leasing company sent out thousands of …
A class of consumers in multidistrict litigation (MDL) recently filed their Motion for Final Approval of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action settlement against a debt collection company, Convergent Outsourcing Inc. (“Convergent”).
Between October 2012 and June 2013, the named plaintiffs initiated separate putative class actions throughout the country alleging that Convergent violated the…
In a motion filed in a putative class action pending in California, Facebook, Inc. seeks to dismiss claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, arguing, among other things, that the TCPA as applied to Facebook’s “status update” text messages is unconstitutional. The plaintiff in Holt v. Facebook, Inc., No. 3:16-cv-02266-JST (N.D. Cal.),…
On October 26, 2016 HIMSS, the leading organization in the US for health information technology and data management, issued a Call to Action for the healthcare industry to work together with cybersecurity experts from different sectors to enhance the preparedness of the healthcare industry to the imminent threat of cyber-attacks. The Call to Action reinforces…
Data Privacy Professionals:
Navigating the rapidly shifting contours of data privacy law demands a pragmatic approach. To that end, we hope you benefited from our inaugural publication. Like our prior editions, this quarterly update provides practitioners with functional issue-spotting guidance for application in the evolving data privacy and cybersecurity arenas. The results and analyses discussed…
On May 24, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission will host an all-day conference in Washington, D.C., examining the state of identity theft and how it may evolve in the future. The conference, titled “Planning for the Future,” corresponds to the ten-year anniversary of the creation of the Identity Theft Task Force, which is co-chaired by…
On October 12, the Sixth Circuit denied Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company’s petition for rehearing en banc on the Court’s decision to revive a putative class action stemming from a 2012 data breach.
According to the plaintiffs’ class action complaint, hackers who breached Nationwide’s computer network on October 3, 2012, stole the personal information of the …
On October 12, the named plaintiff in a Fair Credit Reporting Act class action asked the Northern District of Illinois to certify her putative class against Costco Wholesale Corporation.
According to the Complaint, the plaintiff used her credit card to make a purchase at one of Costco’s stores in January 2016. By the time she …
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