In June 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp. that federal district courts are not bound to defer to the FCC’s interpretations of the Telephone Consumer Protection…
Read MoreThe Texas Governor has officially signed Senate Bill 140 (SB140), which is set to take effect on September 1, 2025. SB140 expands the scope of what constitutes telemarketing under Texas’ telemarketing registration and call disclosures law…
Read MoreSubscription services and automatic renewals have become commonplace in today's digital age. The FTC recently amended its Negative Option Rule to take into consideration this proliferation. Though initially set to take full effect on May 14, 2025, the FTC postponed enforcement of…
Read MoreA bipartisan group of eight state privacy enforcement authorities has formed the Consortium of Privacy Regulators to streamline the implementation and enforcement of state privacy laws…
Read MoreOn April 4, 2025, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals DENIED the petition for interlocutory appeal in Bradley v. Dentalplans.com. This decision means that the case will proceed in the U.S. District Court for Maryland without the appellate court's immediate review…
Read MoreJust four days before the revocation rules were set to take effect on April 11, 2025, the FCC released an Order, includes the following requirements: businesses must honor consumer consent revocations through any “reasonable method” a consumer’s reply to a text with…
Read MoreThe Eleventh Circuit has vacated the "one-to-one consent" and "logically and topically related" requirements under the revised definition of “prior express written consent” in the case, Insurance Marketing Coalition Ltd v. FCC, and remanded the case to the FCC for further proceedings.…
Read MoreThe FCC has postponed the January 27, 2025, effective date of the one-to-one consent rule ("Rule") pending the outcome of the ongoing litigation in Insurance Marketing Coalition Ltd v. FCC. Notwithstanding the IMC challenge, the Rule is postponed to January 26, 2026, or…
Read MoreThe FTC announced amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) on January 16, 2025, the first updates to the rule since 2013…
Read MoreLast week, the Federal Trade Commission announced revisions to the Negative Option Rule to strengthen consumer protections for negative option marketing plans…
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