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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") has established the rules of the road on a federal level for telemarketers since its passage in 1991.

Todd Nunn is a partner in KL Gates' Seattle office. His practice emphasizes employment law, class action defense and electronic discovery.

On June 4, 2007, Gustavo Naranjo filed a putative class action on behalf of Spectrum Security Services, Inc.'s California-based non-exempt employees, alleging that Spectrum failed to pay him meal and ...

On May 19, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court's dismissal of a putative class action against a pharmaceutical company (the "Company")...

In May 2022, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of a new program for expediting the development of new treatment options for rare diseases—Accelerating Rare disease Cures (ARC) Program.1 The FDA considers a disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. a rare disease, and estimates that more than 30…

Wilson Sonsini partner Kathy Ku was recently honored as a leading attorney in both the region of Los Angeles and the state of California. On May 17, 2022, Los Angeles Business Journal named Kathy as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers” in the Los Angeles region for her ongoing efforts as an outstanding legal professional. The accompanying profile covers Kathy’s career in legal work, which stretches from…

The California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) has agreed to pay $22 million to resolve claims it charged LLCs unconstitutional tax fees.

This week Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced that it has disabled augmented reality effects, including filters and avatars, for its users in Texas and Illinois, citing state facial recognition laws.

Judge Freeman ruled previously that such a theory states a claim for securities fraud by omission.

The en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's recent watershed decision in Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative Inc. v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC established several significant benchmarks for...