February 14, 2018
Consumers suing Yahoo over unsolicited "welcome texts" suffered a stinging setback on Tuesday, after an Illinois federal court decertified their class in light of new information that indicates roughly a quarter of recipients may have consented to the welcome texts after all.
July 18, 2016
A class of Sprint Corp. mobile customers is asking a federal judge not to toss its case against Yahoo that alleges the tech giant violated cellphone users' right to privacy under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited texts.
June 29, 2016
Yahoo wants an Illinois federal court to toss a class action filed by cellphone users alleging the tech giant violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited texts, arguing Tuesday the one-time messages didn't harm anyone and contained instructions on how to block further communication from the company.
February 08, 2016
An Illinois federal judge on Monday ordered Sprint to cough up documents on its California subscribers who received allegedly unsolicited text messages from Yahoo in a class action accusing the Internet giant of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
February 04, 2016
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday rejected Yahoo's bid to appeal an Illinois judge's decision to certify part of a class of cell phone users who say Yahoo violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited text messages.
January 04, 2016
An Illinois federal judge on Monday partially certified a class of cellphone users who allege Yahoo violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited text messages, approving a class of Sprint customers who received the messages but finding the T-Mobile class representative had consented to receiving them.
July 22, 2015
Yahoo Inc. struck back at a bid for class certification Wednesday in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit in Illinois federal court accusing it of sending unsolicited text messages, saying the proposed class is not ascertainable and lacks predominating common issues.
June 10, 2015
Plaintiffs in a proposed class action against Yahoo Inc. alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act asked an Illinois federal judge Wednesday to force T-Mobile USA to hand over consumer information they say holds the key to class certification.
May 01, 2015
The lead plaintiffs in a putative class action filed against Yahoo Inc. urged an Illinois federal judge on Thursday to certify a class of people who were sent unsolicited text messages in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, saying they did not give their consent to receive the messages.