January 02, 2023
The recent explosion of litigation accusing a wide range of companies of violating wiretap and video privacy laws through the technology they deploy on their websites will continue to proliferate in 2023, joining robocall and biometric privacy disputes that have long plagued businesses and also show no signs of abating.
February 17, 2021
An Oregon federal judge has dashed health supplement maker ViSalus' bid to ax a $925 million statutory damages award it's facing after a jury found it placed nearly 2 million unsolicited robocalls, ruling that "substantial evidence" supported the jury's verdict and that a new trial wasn't warranted.
November 13, 2020
Health supplement maker ViSalus is doubling down on its bid to ax a $925 million statutory damages award it's facing after an Oregon federal jury found it placed nearly two million unsolicited robocalls, arguing that no consumers suffered any "true harm or injury" that would warrant such a "devastating" judgment.
October 16, 2020
A federal jury verdict finding that health supplement marketer ViSalus made over 1.8 million automated telemarketing calls in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act must be upheld, the lead plaintiff in a long-running robocall dispute told an Oregon federal judge Thursday.
September 25, 2020
Health supplement maker ViSalus is arguing that a lack of uniformity in the types of calls consumers received and whether they consented to this contact should prompt an Oregon federal judge to order a new trial in a long-running robocall dispute, while the lead plaintiff wants to start distributing the $925 million awarded after the original jury trial to class members.
September 04, 2020
A federal judge's refusal to cut down a $925 million award against health supplement maker ViSalus, which placed nearly 2 million unsolicited robocalls, should embolden plaintiffs to continue flooding courts with such claims, and may make companies reluctant to take their chances at trial.
August 28, 2020
The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a consumer's attempt to challenge robocall rule waivers previously granted to a health supplement marketer, the same day that an Oregon federal judge cemented a $925 million jury verdict against the company.
August 14, 2020
An Oregon federal judge on Friday refused to reduce a $925 million statutory damages award that health supplement marketer ViSalus is facing after a jury found it blasted consumers with nearly 2 million unsolicited robocalls, rejecting the company's argument that the penalty was unconstitutionally excessive.
August 22, 2019
Health supplement maker ViSalus brought up arguments about consent too late for a court to consider unraveling a robocall class that won a jury verdict of up to $925 million, an Oregon federal judge has ruled, despite a Federal Communications Commission waiver the company cited in an attempt to dismantle the case.
August 20, 2019
ViSalus Inc. and a consumer class fighting a high-stakes robocall lawsuit are escalating their feud over whether an Oregon federal judge should dismantle the class after the Federal Communications Commission retroactively waived violations for many of the unwanted marketing calls that triggered the legal action.