The Domino’s Pizza chain has agreed to pay $9.75 million to settle claims that it sent unsolicited phone calls and text messages to people’s cell phones. The messages promoted the pizza chain and offered coupons. Consumers in three states filed a lawsuit claiming that the calls were made without their consent, and therefore violated a federal law concerning telephone privacy. The federal law generally prohibits private companies from making calls to cell phones from a computer

A lot of consumer companies market their products with sweepstakes or other games. But as the A&P grocery chain found out recently, there are a lot of legal issues that shouldn’t be left to chance. The grocery company offered what it called the “A&P Frozen Food Month 2013 Sweepstakes,” and advertised that customers who bought $50 worth of frozen-food products would automatically be entered in a contest to win $350 gift cards. The New York Attorney

A recent court decision involving two unpaid interns who worked on the movie “Black Swan” shows the danger that companies can get themselves into with internships. If you offer an unpaid internship program – or even if you just bring on an unpaid intern from time to time, perhaps even as a favor to someone – it’s a good idea to carefully review the rules. Unpaid internships have burgeoned in the last few years, as the