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Amway To Pay $225 Million Over Alleged False Earnings Claims And Fabricated Sales (opens the original)
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The FTC and the state of Washington just announced the largest monetary recovery the agency has ever obtained from a multi-level marketing organization. Amway Corp. and two affiliated "approved provider" groups, World Wide Group and Leadership Team Development, will pay $225 million to settle allegations that they misled recruits, known as Independent Business Owners or IBOs, about likely earnings and pressured them into buying product they had no real opportunity to sell to consumers. The compl
North Carolina Federal Court Dismisses TCPA Text Message Class Action Against R.J. Reynolds (opens the original)
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Two months ago I wrote about the Seventh Circuit's decision in Steidinger v. Blackstone Medical Services, and I flagged that R.J. Reynolds was pushing a similar argument one step further in a North Carolina federal court, seeking to extend the logic beyond texts to reach cell phones generally. The text message argument just won. The cell phone issue wasn't considered at all. On September 3, Senior District Judge Catherine Eagles granted Reynolds' motion to dismiss a proposed class action brought
Seventh Circuit Holds Text Messages Aren't "Calls" Under The TCPA's Do Not Call Provision (opens the original)
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Advertisers that market via text have for years been attempting to comply with a decades-old statute stretched to cover technology it never contemplated. This week the Seventh Circuit decided it had been stretched far enough. In Steidinger v. Blackstone Medical Services, the Seventh Circuit became the first federal appeals court to squarely hold that a text message is not a "telephone call" under the private right of action in TCPA Section 227(c)(5), the Do Not Call provision. Judge Kirsch's opi
FTC Independence Day Fireworks: Warning Letters Over “Made In The USA” Claims (opens the original)
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Today, just two days after July 4th, the FTC sent warning letters to several companies advertising products as Made in USA (and in one case, hand Made in Texas) despite information suggesting that the products were imported in whole or significant part. The claims at issue included “”handmaid in Austin, Texas", “#americanmadeus”, “#madeincali”, “manufactured in the USA”, “built in the USA” and “created by American workers, engineers and innovators.” The timing shouldn't come as a surprise. Just
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