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On December 19, 2012, the FCC explained to the Supreme Court that it deserves deference when it is reviewing its own authority to issue rules and orders
On December 10, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed with a lower court’s ruling that Mississippi’s Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act is preempted by federal law
On November 21, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California preliminarily approved a $14 million settlement of a class action suit in which landowners claimed that Qwest, Sprint, Level 3, and WilTel installed fiber-optic lines on their property without asking for their permission or providing compensation
On November 16, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by TVC Albany, a local and long-distance phone company, against two of its business customers, American Energy Care and Best Cleaners
On November 8, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted DirectTV’s motion to stay a putative class action pending arbitration
On November 5, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted a motion to compel arbitration in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit brought against the national grocer Kroger and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
On November 1, 2012, United States District Courts in Florida and Arizona granted the FTC’s applications for temporary restraining orders (TROs) against a host of companies alleged to have engaged in a fraudulent robocalling scheme in violation of the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule and Trade Regulation Rule
On October 17, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a Washington federal trial court’s dismissal of the putative class action against Best Buy alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA
