Dish Agrees to $210 Million TCPA Settlement, Dropping SCOTUS Appeal
Dish Network will pay $210 million in a settlement with the FTC, California, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio for Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations by a telemarketing firm working for the direct broadcast satellite company, it said in an SEC…
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filing Friday. The money will be paid by Jan. 3, Dish said. It said it also will drop its petition for writ of certiorari filed with the Supreme Court (see 2012020017). The settlement comes after the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March upheld a lower court's verdict against Dish but vacated the $280 million verdict against it and remanded that (see 2004150004). Under the settlement filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Illinois (in Pacer, docket 09-cv-03073), Dish will pay a $126 million civil penalty to the federal government, nearly $40 million to California, just over $13 million to Illinois, about $14 million to North Carolina and about $17 million to Ohio.