Commentary and analysis of the oral arguments in Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, on the Supreme Court's 2011-12 appellate docket. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act was enacted by Congress in 1991 to fill a gap in state consumer protection statutes relating to auto-dialing technology,...

Commentary and analysis of the Supreme Court's January 14, 2014 decision in Mississippi ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics, in which the Court held that this Mississippi state parens patriae consumer action did not constitute a “mass action” removable to federal court under the Class Action...