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On April 1, 2021, the United States Supreme Court ( Supreme
Court ) unanimously reversed the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals decision in
v.
Duguid and held that for a device to constitute an Automatic Telephone Dialing System ( ATDS )
within the meaning of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
( TCPA ), that device must have the capacity to use a
random or sequential number generator to either store or produce
phone numbers to be called. The TCPA prohibits making calls or
sending text messages (other than a call made for emergency
Between 2000 and 2009, the California Supreme Court decided 617 criminal, quasi-criminal and juvenile justice cases. Los Angeles County accounted for 188 of those cases.
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On Friday, March 26, with trial set to begin the following
Monday, Judge Alan D Albright held a hearing on a motion for death penalty sanctions to strike the
defendant s pleadings and enter a judgment of
infringement in the case of
Performance Chemical Company
v. True Chemical Solutions, LLC WDTX-6-21-cv-00222. The Court
did not rule on the motion at the hearing, but did cancel the
trial, which it said it did not do lightly in view of its busy
docket.
As background, Performance Chemical Company (PCC) sued its
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On March 2, 2021, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a
ruling from the United States District Court for the District of
Colorado in the case of
Colorado v. EPA, et al., Nos.
20-1238, 20-1262, and 20-1263, that had issued a preliminary
injunction blocking implementation of the Trump
Administration s Navigable Waters Protection Rule
( NWPR ) in the State of Colorado. Under the Tenth Circuit ruling, the NWPR was put back
into force, and the State of Colorado s case was remanded back
to district court for further proceedings challenging the rule.
The U.S. Supreme Court on March 25, 2021, ruled in an 8-0 decision that the connection between the plaintiffs' claims and Ford Motor Co.'s activities in the forum states supported the exercise.