| Volume 136 Number 9 |
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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
Time to end your lease? Trying to avoid losing your security deposit so you tell the landlord to keep it for the last month‚s rent? Bad idea. Under the law, you could owe your landlord three times the deposit plus $100 if you do that. A better idea--pay your rent, give proper notice and a forwarding address and take advantage of the Texas Security Deposit Law, which lets you get three times the deposit plus $100 if it is not properly returned.
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Google won't be reading your emails anymore
Google says that from now, it will not be scanning your email contents to decide what ads to serve to you. Instead, the ads will be based on the information Google already has about you, which is -- after all -- just about everything. It's not so much individual consumers that Google is concerned about. Instead, it's big corporate customers, who have shied away from using Google Cloud, the cloud computing service that competes with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.
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Your Money
20 Things You Should Never Buy at the Grocery Store. Keep supporting your local store, but skip the following 20 things. These are the goods you should never buy at the grocery store when you have cheaper options available: Greeting cards; batteries; magazines; diapers; alcohol; toothbrushes; special occasion cakes; pet food; bottled water; frozen pancakes; basic baking mixes; kitchenware; spices; party supplies; coffee; toilet paper; light bulbs; individually wrapped snack items; gift cards; and bread. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
Consumer cannot revoke consent to be called. Plaintiff filed suit against alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. 227. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for Lincoln, holding that plaintiff did introduce sufficient evidence from which a jury could conclude that he revoked his consent, but that the TCPA does not permit a consumer to revoke its consent to be called when that consent forms part of a bargained for exchange. In this case, plaintiff's consent was not provided gratuitously, it was included as an express provision of a contract to lease an automobile from Lincoln. Reyes v. Lincoln Automotive Financial Services (2d Cir. 2017). Click here for more.