On May 31, the US Supreme Court reinstated an injunction first implemented in December 2021 regarding HB 20, the Texas law prohibiting social media companies from certain content moderation based on viewpoints. Its decision comes just over a week after the 11th Circuit upheld an injunction barring enforcement of Florida’s law that banned
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Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument Over the TCPA’s Definition of an Autodialer
By Alysa Z. Hutnik, Laura A. Mazzuchetti, Whitney M. Smith & Julia Schuurman on
Posted in Privacy and Information Security, Telemarketing
For the second time this year, the TCPA came before the Supreme Court via teleconference oral argument in Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, et al, Case No. 19-511 (2020). The Supreme Court’s disposition of Facebook’s petition is expected to resolve a widening Circuit split over what qualifies as an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) under
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Supreme Court Reverses Google Settlement But Ducks Ruling on Its Fairness
By Kelley Drye on
Posted in Advertising Litigation, Class Actions
In February 2018, I reported on a 20-state objection brief, filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to reverse the approval of the class action settlement in Gaos v. Google. That deal would have distributed a few million dollars to nonprofit groups, while the AGs wanted money paid to real people, even if…