5/20/2025 4:12:26 PM Financial Services and Technology: Florida Changes Law to Make Clear that Collection-Related Emails Are Not Included in the Prohibition on After-Hours Communications By Eric Hail Ted Huffman On May 16, Governor Ron DeSantis signed bill CS/CS/SB 232 into law. The bill includes modifications to the Florida Consumer Collection...
5/9/2025 3:03:56 PM Second Circuit Sets Precedent Limiting VPPA in Facebook Pixel Cases By Ted Huffman Over the past several years, class action litigants have flooded federal dockets with Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) cases against...
4/30/2025 2:30:32 PM SCOTUS Considers Article III Questions with Significant Implications on Class Action Certification By Ted Huffman Christopher Vazquez Eric Hail Eric Werlinger +1 more... Show less The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard oral argument this week in Labcorp v. Davis (No. 24-304) to determine “[w]hether a...
4/22/2025 9:26:25 PM Financial Industry Concerns Cause FCC to Delay Implementation of Broad Consent Revocation Requirement under TCPA By Ted Huffman On April 11, 2025, a controversial new rule by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was set to take effect to modify consent...
3/28/2025 5:48:46 PM RIP Overdraft Rule? By Eric Werlinger Stuart Richter Eric Hail Ted Huffman Camille Brooks +2 more... Show less Last month, bills were introduced in the House and Senate to overturn the much-maligned CFPB overdraft rule. You can find our previous...
6/7/2024 5:41:17 PM State Law Requiring PFAS Disclosure Leads to Class Action Lawsuit By Chris Cole A Maine law that required (at least until recently amended) consumer products companies to disclose the presence of “intentionally added”...
5/24/2024 2:36:58 PM SCOTUS Resolves New (Fourth) Layer of Arbitration Contract Disputes By Ted Huffman Eric Werlinger The US Supreme Court gave us another arbitration decision on May 23 — the second in the span of a week. This one is Coinbase v. Suski,...
5/20/2024 4:00:07 PM SCOTUS Update: The CFPB Lives On and Arbitrable Lawsuits Must Be Stayed (Not Dismissed) By Eric Werlinger Ted Huffman The Supreme Court was busy last week issuing opinions of interest to consumer finance companies, CFPB-regulated entities, and anyone who...
4/25/2024 8:31:56 PM 100% Pure, Natural False Advertising Litigation By Michael Justus One of the worst-kept secrets among the plaintiffs’ bar is that claims like “pure” and “natural” on consumer-product labels can lead to...