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Tag: U.S. Supreme Court

  • 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 sides with Google in Oracle copyright fight

    Concerns that Google is becoming a monopoly increased with the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest decision. The nation’s highest court ruled that Google’s use of Oracle’s purely functional, noncreative computer code in its Android phones does not violate copyright law. Two conservative justices dissented. The Associated Press has the story: Google OK to use Oracle’s Java…

  • 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…