The suit, which names Sen. Harry Reid (R-NV), his son, Rory, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro and President Obama as defendants, calls for Bundy to be released from federal custody and awarded $50 million in damages. In the complaint, Bundy alleges Reid deployed “the equivalent of federal storm-troopers” to meet Bundy’s “peaceful cowboys” defending their grazing rights on public lands. The …
Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation regarding alleged violations of the TCPA, many issues relating to the interpretation of the statute have been presented to the FCC by impacted parties. These petitions can be …
Bill Parry started getting calls from his clients immediately — and they were furious. At 4:00 p.m. on Dec. 1, General Electric issued a statement saying it was pulling about $5 billion in preferred stock from the market and exchanging it for shares with new terms. The securities had plummeted, erasing about $500 million in market value and enraging investors.