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  • SCOTUS reduces FTC authority on ill-gotten gains

    In a unanimous decision that made acting FTC chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter furious, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a provision the FTC has been relying on to recover ill-gotten gains does not actually give the agency that authority. This reversed a nearly $1.3 billion award against a professional race car driver. The Associated Press…

  • SCOTUS says Facebook texts aren’t robocalls

    The U.S. Supreme Court examined the application of a 1991 consumer law prohibiting abusive telemarketing to unwanted text messages from Facebook. The court determined that it did not apply, since the texting did not use a random or sequential number generator. The Associated Press has the story: U.S. Supreme Court rules against man who had…

  • SCOTUS upholds FCC relaxing media ownership restrictions

    Due to times changing with internet and cable companies growing and taking readers and viewers away from traditional media, the FCC has relaxed some restrictions on traditional media. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the move, which prohibited a company from owning a radio or TV station and a daily newspaper in the same media market.…