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FTC staff updates its COPPA FAQS, providing crucial guidance for covered operators

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

Last week, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") issued crucial reading for operators of websites, apps, plug-ins, ad networks and other

Light at the end of the tunnel for some defendants under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 3 2012

In recent months, three district courts have limited the scope of liability under certain subsections of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) for defendants who did not themselves send unsolicited calls, texts, or faxes to consumers

FCPA anti-corruption developments: 2012 end of summer round-up

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • China, France, Global, Haiti, India, Mexico, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • October 10 2012

While the temperatures rose this summer, the number of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions seems to have cooled off for the first time in the last five years

Payments for telephone number “porting” services not subject to sales tax

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 5 2011

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has ruled that telecommunications carriers’ payments to an administrator to manage and maintain regional databases for telephone number “porting” are not subject to New York sales and use tax

Telecom executive sentenced to 4 years in prison for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • Honduras, USA
  • -
  • September 13 2011

Last Wednesday, a United States District Court judge in the Southern District of Florida sentenced the former CEO of Latin Node, a now-defunct Florida-based telecommunication company, to 46 months in prison for paying bribes to Honduran government officials

Another successful FCPA prosecution against individualsmore Terra Telecom execs appear headed for prison for Haiti bribes

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • Haiti, USA
  • -
  • August 9 2011

After a two-and-a-half-week trial and five hours of deliberation, a federal jury in Miami last week returned yet another favorable verdict for the Department of Justice in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecution

The U.S. Department of Labor’s new timesheet app: the wage and hour stakes just got higher

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 14 2011

Claims for alleged wage and hour violations continue to present employers with the risk of substantial liability, with back wages paid each year estimated at more than $180 million for federal claims alone

Every step you take

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 2 2011

A number of "do-not-track" bills have been introduced recently

Telecom equipment "shelters" held to be exempt from sales tax

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2011

A New York State Administrative Law Judge has held that Nextel Partners N.Y. (“Nextel”) is entitled to a refund of sales tax it paid on the purchase of “shelters” used to contain telecommunications equipment

Spam busters

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 11 2011

On February 23, 2011, the FTC announced an enforcement action under section 5, alleging the delivery of unsolicited text messages caused substantial injury to consumers, which they could not reasonably avoid, and without countervailing benefits to consumers or competition

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