Dish Liable For Millions Of Calls In Violation Of Federal Telemarketing Rules

More than five years after being sued by the Federal Trade Commission for years of allegedly illegal telemarketing calls, Dish Network has been held liable by a federal court in Illinois for tens of millions of calls made in violation of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) beginning as far back as 2007. The FTC announced today that the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois issued partial summary judgement finding Dish liable for more than 57 million calls to consumers who were either on the National Do Not Call Registry or the company’s internal list.