| Volume 110 Number 10 |
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New York Attorney General Questions eBay and PayPal About Robocall Policies
Recently eBay and PayPal changed their privacy policies to allow them to use "autodialed or prerecorded calls or text messages" to contact their users about almost any issues, from debt collection to sales calls. The inquiry from the New York Attorney General points out that the expansive change to permit robocalling to users for any issue may violate U.S. laws regarding debt collection and telephone privacy.
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For the Lawyers
Connecticut Appeals Court upholds arbitration award of punitive damages and attorney's fees in the amount of $170,000 against homeowners who designed and posted a website defaming a home contractor with whom they had a billing dispute over $25,000. While the appeals court acknowledged that the arbitrator may have erred in using the lesser “malice in fact” standard in making the award, and not made the “actual malice” finding that was required, the error was not a “manifest disregard of the law” that would require setting aside the arbitrator’s decision. SBD Kitchens, LLC. v. Jefferson, 2015 Conn. App. (June 16, 2015). Click here for more.