9/12/2023 0 Comments Phoenix attorney general![]() ![]() ![]() Nearly 200 million of those calls were made to Arizona phone numbers, according to a press release from the Arizona attorney general’s office.Īvid Telecom is a service provider that sells phone numbers, data, dialing software and expertise and advice to telemarketing companies. ![]() Between December 2018 and January 2023, plaintiffs say Avid Telecom facilitated 7.5 billion illegal automated phone calls to people on the do not call registry. Plaintiffs accuse Avid Telecom, its owner Michael Lansky and its vice president Stacey Reeves of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule and 21 other federal and state telecommunication and consumer laws. The lawsuit, filed by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes in Arizona federal court, is joined by 48 attorneys general, excluding those from Alaska and South Dakota. The legal action stems from the nationwide Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force made up of attorneys general from all 50 states as well Washington, D.C. Kobach also is trying to stop Kansas from changing the sex listing on transgender people’s birth certificates in a separate federal lawsuit.PHOENIX (CN) - Arizona joined 47 other states in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against a telecommunications company accused of facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to people on the National Do Not Call Registry. Kobach is going to great lengths to prevent the voices of transgender Kansans from being heard in this case,” she added. Sharon Brett, legal director for the ACLU of Kansas, said in a statement that because Kobach’s interpretation of the new law conflicts with transgender people’s rights, “Their voices must be heard.” “Allowing intervention will create a procedural morass,” he wrote.Īttorneys representing the Department of Revenue against Kobach’s lawsuit support the transgender people’s request and argued in their own filing Tuesday that allowing them to intervene would promote “judicial economy.” The lawyers said the transgender residents are likely to file a separate lawsuit if their request is denied. Kobach also argued that if the transgender people intervene and raise constitutional issues, he would be obligated as the state’s top lawyer to defend the Department of Revenue against those claims - in his own lawsuit. “Thus, whatever grievances third parties may have … such matters are simply not relevant,” Kobach wrote. Kobach argued in his filing, dated Tuesday, “That is not the issue in this case.” Instead, he said, the question is only whether the Department of Revenue is complying with the new law. The five transgender individuals are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and argue that barring changes in the sex listings on driver’s licenses violates their rights under the Kansas Constitution. Kansas is among a few states that don’t allow such changes, along with Montana, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Watson already has directed the department not to change transgender people’s licenses while the lawsuit moves forward, and that order is to remain in place until at least Nov. 16 hearing set in Shawnee County, home to the state capital of Topeka, on the transgender people’s request to intervene. The Republican-controlled Legislature overrode Kelly’s veto and enacted it.ĭistrict Judge Theresa Watson has an Aug. Laura Kelly announced that people could continue to have their driver’s licenses changed despite the new law, which defines male and female under any state law as the sex assigned to a person at birth. Kobach filed the lawsuit last month against two top officials in the Kansas Department of Revenue, which issues driver’s licenses. ![]()
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