Oliver Shapiro
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CONSENT, NOW STARRING HOLLYWOOD: Telecom Wrote This Playbook, Hollywood’s Just Reading It (opens the original)
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I have spent a good chunk of my career sitting on a few very different sides of a similar table. These days I defend companies against TCPA and CIPA claims, where the entire fight usually comes down to one question, did this person actually agree to be contacted or recorded this way. Before that, I worked in entertainment transactions, negotiating talent deals where the entire fight usually came down to one question, did this person actually agree to have their name, face, voice, or general like
HOLDING COMPANY HOLDS ITS GROUND: N.D. Alabama Grant’s USHealth Group’s Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction (opens the original)
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Every TCPA defense lawyer has had the same conversation with a client who’s just been sued alongside their own subsidiary. The client says something alone the lines of “but we didn’t make any calls, our subsidiary did.” And the client is often right, but that alone rarely ends the conversation because plaintiffs love to argue that a parent company should answer for whatever its subsidiary did somewhere far from home. Well, a federal court in Alabama just gave a clean and well-reasoned answer to
THE SEESAW BATTLE CONTINUES- Another New Jersey Court Says Texts Are “Calls,” but the Decision’s Reasoning is Hard to Defend and the Map Doesn’t Change (opens the original)
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You all know the battle that we have been following in the wake of Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369 (2024) and McLaughlin Chiropractic Assocs., Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 606 U.S. 146 (2025). Well, another New Jersey federal court just held that text messages are “telephone calls” under 227(c)(5) but the map that you are all too familiar with does not change as a result. The case is Owen-Brooks v. Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate, LLC, No. 25-15801, 2026 WL 2455150 (D.N.J. Aug. 21,
A VERY BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW – Vivek Shah Declared a Vexatious Litigant (opens the original)
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Twenty-nine lawsuits in under five years. Seven nearly identical complaints in seven months. And almost none of them ever saw the inside of a courtroom before the plaintiff himself pulled the plug. That’s the résumé a federal judge in Los Angeles was staring at when he decided one man had officially worn out his welcome in the Central District of California. If you’ve done any privacy defense work in California, you already know the lawsuit at the center of all this by heart, even before reading
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