Brooks Brown

Late in the afternoon on January 24, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) "One-to-One Consent Rule," which was scheduled to take effect on January 27, 2025, was struck down and vacated by the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Insurance Marketing Coalition Limited v. Federal Communications Commission.

Overview Late in the afternoon on January 24, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “One-to-One Consent Rule,” which was scheduled to take effect on January 27, 2025, was struck down and vacated by the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Insurance Marketing Coalition Limited v. Federal Communications Commission.

In recent years, plaintiff-side attorneys have increasingly relied on a strategy of "mass arbitration" to force companies into in terrorem settlements, whereby large numbers of claims are settled quickly before the underlying merits of those claims can be tested. One primary driver of this strategy is the significant administrative-fee burden that is incurred for defendants in most arbitral fora when thousands of purportedly inpidual claims are filed simultaneously.