June 5, 2017
Dish Network has been ordered to pay $280 million in penalties as part of an 8-year-old “robocall” telemarketing lawsuit.
US District Judge Sue Myerscough for the Central Illinois District ordered the satellite television provider to pay $168 million to the US government and $112 million to four states for violating laws regarding the national Do Not Call registry. The number of calls amounted to “millions and millions,” Myerscough wrote in her 475-page ruling...
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#Do Not Call
#FCC
#Robocalls