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Court issues order directing British Telecom, an internet service provider, to prevent access to Newzbin.com, a website that had been found by the court in a previous decision to be infringing on plaintiffs’ copyrights by distributing commercial content without their permission
A federal court in California has dismissed a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), ruling that an advertiser is not vicariously liable under the statute for text message campaigns carried out by agencies on its behalf unless the advertiser controls the manner and means of the campaign
The Georgia Supreme Court has effectively sidelined a class action law suit alleging that a sweepstakes that allows entry by text message for a fee is an illegal lottery
A class action law suit was filed in federal district court in California against AT&T Mobility and unnamed sponsors of sweepstakes tied to various television shows, alleging that the defendants conducted an illegal lottery by charging 99 for individuals to enter the sweepstakes by sending a text message
