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A Florida federal court has given businesses that call and text consumers something they rarely get: a path to getting a Do Not Call lawsuit thrown out early. In Internicola v. MortgagePros, LLC, the court dismissed a Do Not Call...
A voice service provider can lose its place in the U.S. phone network without ever being fined. That is the lesson of the FCC’s latest robocall enforcement action, announced October
If anyone thought the FTC had slowed down, this episode says otherwise. Michele talks through a run of recent enforcement actions that share two things: very large penalties and familiar
It’s official. FCC commissioners adopted new TCPA consent-revocation rules at the September 30, 2026 open meeting, carrying forward the draft order largely as written. Take note: a countdown to the
This episode of ComplianceTalk rounds up a busy stretch of agency and court activity, touching on plenty more than just the FCC’s revocation rule and the Williams-Sonoma arbitration ruling. On
When the FCC adopted its “revoke-all” rule for robocalls and texts as part of broader revocation rules in February 2024, it set an April 2025 effective date. Then just days
On September 2, 2026, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau released a Public Notice seeking comment on a proposed “Robocall Mitigation Scorecard,” a public rating system meant to grade
In this episode of ComplianceTalk, Chad flies solo while Michele is out assisting with client work. But with plenty to cover, the show must go on! He starts with a
If your company runs a website, app, or chat tool that uses cookies, tracking pixels, session-replay software, or similar analytics or tracking technology, you’ve likely felt the effects of California’s
Generative AI has quickly become part of everyday business. Employees are now regularly using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot, and turning to AI for help in summarizing documents,
Mac Murray & Shuster LLP is pleased to announce that five of its attorneys have been named to the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers:
Pennsylvania just gave its telemarketing statute the most significant update it’s had in years. Senate Bill 992 folds text messaging, robocalls, caller ID spoofing, and electronic consent squarely into the
This episode of ComplianceTalk covers a Seventh Circuit ruling that just shook things up under the TCPA. In Steidinger v. Blackstone Medical Services, the court found that text messages don’t
The U.S. Senate passed the Foreign Robocall Elimination Act (S. 2666) by unanimous consent on August 3, 2026. The bill arrives amid a broader, intensifying push against robocalls that includes
On August 7, 2026, a federal judge in Ohio blocked the state from enforcing its newly tightened hemp/THC standard against a group of hemp product manufacturers, ruling that the law’s
A federal court just made it harder for one of the country’s most active website-privacy plaintiffs to continue operating the way he has been. But if your business has received
Two federal appellate courts have now reached opposite conclusions on whether a text message is a “telephone call” under the TCPA. Most recently, the Seventh Circuit narrowed a favorite plaintiff’s
It’s our 10th episode of ComplianceTalk! To mark the occasion, Michele and Chad step away from the usual roundup of new developments for a primer on UDAP: Unfair, Deceptive Acts
Many businesses treat email marketing compliance as beginning and ending with CAN-SPAM, largely because the federal statute broadly preempts state laws regulating commercial email. However, recent lawsuits show that compliance
