Recent decisions out of the Northern District of California and Ninth Circuit may reflect a new era of McGill jurisprudence. In McGill v. Citibank, N.A., 2 Cal. 5th 945 (2017), the California Supreme Court held on public policy grounds that
Massachusetts Federal Court Orders Privacy Lawsuit to Individual Arbitration
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts has granted a cable company’s motion to compel individual arbitration in a privacy case. In Wainblat v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et. al., No. 19-cv-10976 (D. Mass., November 4,
FCC Makes Leased Access Rules More Cable Operator Friendly, Opens the Door to Eliminating Them
On June 7, 2019, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or the “Commission”) released a Report and Order (“R&O”) revising the Commission’s rules under which independent programmers may lease cable TV channels to retransmit their programming (“Leased Access Rules”). Leased Access
MCI v. Society Insurance – Insurance Policies Defamation Rider Doesn’t Provide Coverage — Chicago’s Best Defamation Libel and Slander Attorneys Near Oak Brook and Naperville
When a restaurant owner was sued for broadcasting DirecTV and paying only residential subscription rates instead of higher commercial subscription rates, the owner could not seek coverage under the insurance policy. The policy protected against suits for libel, slander, or