March 13 roundup
Claimed prison guard punched him in face: “Man convicted in Chicago-area mass murder awarded $500,000″ [WHAS, ABA Journal] Ken White “immediately repulsed and enraged” by Mayer-Brown-repped suit...
View ArticleBuffalo Bills to pay nominal $3 million for sending text messages
“The Buffalo Bills have agreed to pay up to $3 million – largely in the form of debit cards redeemable only at the team store – to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the team of sending too...
View ArticleTCPA logic fail — and an ironic target
Lawyers continue to craft class actions (here, here, etc.) demanding hundreds of millions or billions of dollars from businesses over what are often inadvertent or gray-area violations of the Telephone...
View ArticleNew York “Annoyance Lawyer” sues Uber
New York attorney Todd C. Bank “sued Uber Technologies Inc. over its robocall campaign attacking New York Mayor Bill de Blasio over his proposal to limit the number of drivers.” Mr. Bank bills himself...
View ArticleThe liability limit that created the modern online economy
A tribute to Section 230: “No other sentence in the U.S. Code, I would assert, has been responsible for the creation of more value than that one; if you have other candidates for that honor you think...
View ArticleNovember 4 roundup
“How to write an overlawyered email, in 4 easy steps!” [Inspired Law Blog] Fifth Circuit upholds conviction of Texas lawyer Marc Rosenthal over pattern of fraud including but not limited to suborning...
View Article“Justice Scalia’s Telecommunications Legacy”
Antonin Scalia’s work on telecommunications deregulation before he became a judge is not one of the more widely known parts of his career, but as director of a White House office on telecom policy in...
View ArticleSafety recall? Put down that phone
Honda called car owners to warn about dangerous Takata airbags. Its reward was to get sued by a class action lawyer over unsolicited calls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) [U.S....
View ArticleAT&T Time Warner merger
My new piece at CNN begins by noting that antitrust law has moved on since the Truman era, even if the U.S. Department of Justice hasn’t quite: In 1948 the US Supreme Court ordered Hollywood studios to...
View ArticleCrow for them, Pai for us: American Internet policies outpace Europe’s in the...
As demand for videoconferencing and other online services soars in the pandemic emergency, European policymakers “are now eating crow and entreating video platforms to downgrade the quality of their...
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