April 15, 2016
Attorneys who brokered a $4 million settlement with Verizon Wireless LLC over unwanted robocalls on Thursday asked a California federal court to approve $1.35 million in legal fees.
December 23, 2015
Verizon has agreed to pay $4 million to end class action claims that a debt collector it hired violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making robocalls to people who were never Verizon subscribers, according to documents filed in California federal court Tuesday.
July 22, 2015
A California federal judge on Tuesday granted a stay jointly requested by Verizon Wireless LLC and a proposed class in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit, allowing them to mediate the dispute in the wake of a July 10 order by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on the definition of an automatic telephone dialer system.
July 20, 2015
Verizon Wireless LLC and a proposed class in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit asked a California federal judge Friday to stay proceedings while they mediate the dispute in the wake of a July 10 order by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
July 06, 2015
Verizon Wireless LLC has told a California federal judge that it shouldn't bear sanctions for discovery misconduct in a proposed putative class action over debt-collection robocalls, arguing a contracted debt collector committed the misconduct, and should face the sanctions alone.
June 18, 2015
A California federal magistrate on Thursday hit Verizon Wireless LLC and one of its debt collectors with limited sanctions for discovery misconduct in a proposed class action over debt-collection robocalls recorded without the recipients' permission.
June 09, 2015
A man who claims he was hassled by illegally recorded collections calls urged a California federal judge on Tuesday not to dismiss his class certification bid in his case against Verizon Wireless Inc., saying he'd had to file a placeholder motion to keep Verizon from trying to "pick off" his claims with a settlement offer.
June 04, 2015
Plaintiffs in a proposed class action accusing Verizon Wireless LLC of recording calls to noncustomers without their consent urged a California federal judge Thursday to sanction Verizon and its collection agency, Collecto, for destroying relevant documents and hiding related litigation from them.