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Digital health company Hims became the subject of a class-action lawsuit filed in California on Tuesday.
The complaint alleges Hims violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act with a series of alleged spam text messages.
The suit was brought by David Vaccaro, a California resident who maintains he was not a Hims patient when he began receiving programmed voice and text messages from the company.
The direct-to-consumer digital health company Hims was the subject of a class-action lawsuit, according to a complaint filed Tuesday.
The complaint alleges that Hims violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which protects consumers from robocalls and spam messages that have become pervasive in the last several years.
On February 10, 2021, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced new policy changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) meant to address an ongoing issue loan applicants face regarding validation error codes. These error codes serve as validation checks to combat fraud and prevent improper loans from being issued to ineligible businesses. However, many eligible businesses have received such error codes during the application and forgiveness process, delaying necessary economic relief.
SBA’s new changes grant additional authorities to lenders for borrowers experiencing validation error code challenges. Read more here.
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An Oregon federal judge has dashed health supplement maker ViSalus' bid to ax a $925 million statutory damages award it's facing after a jury found it placed nearly 2 million unsolicited robocalls, ruling that "substantial evidence" supported the jury's verdict and that a new trial wasn't warranted.
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Attorney General Becerra Petitions Court to Ensure Consumer Protections Against Robocalling
In an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the attorneys general argue to protect the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined a multistate coalition in an effort to stop companies from breaking the law with harassing telemarketing calls. In an amicus brief filed in
Lindenbaum v. Realgy, LLC, the attorneys general called on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to reverse a district court s ruling that a landmark federal law intended to stop telemarketing scams was unconstitutional and unenforceable for a five-year period ending in 2020.
Seyfarth Synopsis:
The ABA’s “anti-contact” rule prohibits attorneys from communicating with represented parties concerning the subject matter of the case. In Moore, et al., v. Club Exploria, LLC, No. 19-CV-2504, 2021 WL 260227 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 26, 2021), the court
sanctioned defense counsel for calling plaintiff’ s cell number as part of investigating whether the number was associated with another individual in defense of plaintiff’s claim that the Defendant caused telemarketing calls to be made to his phone without consent in alleged violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. (“TCPA”). While defense counsel dodged most of the sanctions that plaintiff sought, the Court ordered defense counsel to pay the attorneys’ fees of plaintiff’s counsel associated with bringing the motion for sanctions.