There is no shortage of consumer class actions these days, but most of these cases are settled or dismissed. If trials are rare, trials of class actions are rarer, if only because of the stakes.
In 2017, Dish Network tried its luck with a jury in the Middle District of North Carolina regarding claims that it made over 50,000 telephone solicitations to 18,000 residential phone numbers on the Do-Not-Call list in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Dish lost and the Court trebled the jury award of $400 per call, resulting in $61,342,800 in total damages with $20.4 million in ...
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