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National Law Journal

Agency Sets High Expectations For Cooperation

For lawyers defending companies under scrutiny by federal agencies, the real question is whether to self-report wrongdoing.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Law Firm Sued Over Text Message Ads

A Connecticut resident is attempting to bring a class action suit against a New York law firm for allegedly violating a consumer protection law by sending out unsolicited text message advertisements.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Circuit Finds Debt Calls Barred by Federal Law

A man who ended up on a collection agency's call list after discontinuing the electricity at his deceased mother-in-law's apartment convinced a federal appeals court that the calls were prohibited by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Risks of Collecting Social Security Numbers

The widespread use of SSNs as both an identifier and an authenticator is precisely what makes collecting and using the numbers so risky.
11 minute read

Litigation Daily

Trinity Battles Guardrail Claims as Texas Trial Nears Close

Three months after a whistleblower's billion-dollar case against a major Texas manufacturer of highway guardrail systems ended in a mistrial, platoons of lawyers for both sides are gearing up for closing arguments in a retrial now underway in Marshall, Texas.
4 minute read

Law.com

Members of Congress Call for Travel Ban Over Ebola

Arguing that the president and the Health and Human Services secretary have the legal authority to ban travel from Ebola-stricken countries or quarantine those who arrive in the United States from the region, members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Thursday pushed for the administration to tighten U.S. borders.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

GM Hit With Recall Class Actions for 30 Million Consumers

Plaintiffs lawyers leading the fight against General Motors Co. over its ignition-switch recalls have filed two consolidated class actions on behalf of 30 million consumers across the country.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

SLAPP Ruling Upheld in Consumer-Protection Lawsuit

A drug company cannot seek a court-issued declaration that it did not violate California's Consumer Legal Remedies Act by advertising its dietary supplement Amberen as a natural remedy to relieve menopausal symptoms, the California Second District Court of Appeal has ruled.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

N.J.'s Consumer Protection Law Needs Reform

The president of the American Tort Reform Association argues for reforming New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge Boots Privacy Class Action Against Cartoon Network

That's all, folks: A Georgia federal judge has booted a proposed class action against The Cartoon Network Inc. that alleged privacy violations, ruling the personal information disclosed was too general to identify individuals.
2 minute read

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