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Republican Party
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Varnum LLP
Text Messages and the TCPA: A Growing Defense to Do-Not-Call Claims
By Varnum
For decades, federal courts relied on interpretative guidance from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow plaintiffs to sue under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) Do-Not-Call provisions for unauthorized…
Broadcast Law Blog
Is the Requirement that Broadcasters Give Lowest Unit Rates to Political Candidates Unconstitutional? The Republican Party Files a Lawsuit to Find Out
Throughout this election season, we’ve been following the battle over lowest unit rates – the requirement that, during the 45 days before a primary and the 60 days before a…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
Reading the Tea Leaves: Text Messages May Not Be TCPA Calls in the Seventh Circuit
By Virginia Bell Flynn, Chad R. Fuller, Brian Hays, Stefanie Jackman
On May 21, a panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument in Steidinger v. Blackstone Medical Services on whether text messages are covered as "telephone calls" in…
InsureReinsure
Reading the Tea Leaves: Text Messages May Not Be TCPA Calls in the Seventh Circuit
By Virginia Bell Flynn, Chad R. Fuller, Brian Hays, Stefanie Jackman
On May 21, a panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument in Steidinger v. Blackstone Medical Services on whether text messages are covered as "telephone calls" in…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Ninth Circuit Deletes RNC’s Lawsuit Over Gmail’s Spam Filter–RNC v. Google
By Eric Goldman
Prior blog post. I previously summarized the case: You may recall that the RNC claimed that Gmail’s spam filter was biased against Republican spam. The centerpiece of this claim was…
InsureReinsure
Ninth Circuit Holds that Texts Are “Calls” Under the TCPA But Embedded Videos Are Not Recorded Messages
By Brian Hays, Stefanie Jackman
On January 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in Howard v. Republican National Committee (RNC) offering two important interpretations of the applicability of…
InsureReinsure
Ninth Circuit Holds that Texts Are “Calls” Under the TCPA But Embedded Videos Are Not Recorded Messages
By Brian Hays, Stefanie Jackman
On January 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in Howard v. Republican National Committee (RNC) offering two important interpretations of the applicability of…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
Ninth Circuit Holds that Texts Are “Calls” Under the TCPA But Embedded Videos Are Not Recorded Messages
By Brian Hays, Stefanie Jackman
On January 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in Howard v. Republican National Committee (RNC) offering two important interpretations of the applicability of…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
What Does It Mean to Make a Voice Call in a Post-Telephone World?–Howard v. RNC
By Eric Goldman
In 1991, Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The TCPA is a telephone exceptionalist statute–by design, the TCPA regulates telemarketing phone calls differently than other forms of marketing.…
Turtle Talk
Tribal Amicus Brief in Watson v. Republican National Committee
Here: Tribal Amicus Brief.pdfDownload